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Girl · Old High German
Adelheid
Say it: AH-del-hite
Meaning
From Germanic adal 'noble' and heid 'kind, sort, type'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A German royal name since the 10th century; its pet forms include Heidi, Elke and the French Alice.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 153 babies given this name since 1894
- At its height in 1894, about 1 in 37,200 girls
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Adelheide
| English | Adelaide |
|---|---|
| French | Adélaïde |
| Italian | Adelaide |
| Dutch | Aleida |
| Latin | Adalheidis |
| Polish | Adelajda |
Famous bearers
- Saint Adelaide (Adelheid), Holy Roman Empress, wife of Otto I
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- Calendars of saints and name days
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.