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Adele

Germanic at root, carrying the sense of nobility. Most Poles have never met one, yet the name is climbing: 16 girls got it last year, more than in years past.

Adele Pronunciation

Adele is pronounced ah-DE-le (/aˈdɛlɛ/).

Related names
Adela Adelka
Alive in 2025
150
Newborns 2025
16
National rank
#2649

What Adele means

Where Adele comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Adele grows from the Germanic word adal, meaning noble, and that root gives the short meaning we still read today, nobility. Polish renders it as szlachetność. German-speaking lands carried the name most often, and the association with German culture stayed strong for a long time. One early bearer is documented well, Saint Adela, an abbess in the Frankish territories who died around 735.

In Polish the name keeps a small, close family. Adela is the fuller variant, the same root spread wide. Adelka is the diminutive a young girl hears at home.

The meaning has not drifted. In a Polish class register an Adela sits among the surnames, her name day marked more than once on the calendar. The nobility in adal is the same nobility she carries now.

How many people are named Adele

1 in 150292 women in Poland is named Adele. 150 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2649 among female names.

People with the name Adele 2019 → 2025
150 +91 since 2019
2020 62 +3
2021 66 +4
2022 80 +14
2023 108 +28
2024 126 +18
2025 150 +24

Adele's popularity over time

16 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #566 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.

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16 newborns with the name Adele in 2025
national rank #566 that year

Where parents choose Adele

Adele is most popular in West Pomeranian, 288% above the national average (5 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lubusz (+164%) and Masovian (+159%). It is least common in Greater Poland and Lower Silesian, 39% and 17% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • West Pomeranian
    +288%
    1 in 16,885 babies
  • Lubusz
    +164%
    1 in 24,829 babies
  • Masovian
    +159%
    1 in 25,305 babies
Chosen least
  • Greater Poland
    −39%
    1 in 107,622 babies
  • Lower Silesian
    −17%
    1 in 78,567 babies

Adele as a middle name

Adele is a first name for 150 women in Poland and a middle name for another 67, a 69/31 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 823rd, between Young (68) and Alessandra (67).

As a first name
150
As a middle name
67
first name 69% middle name 31%
Middle-name ranking women

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