Name: Adelaide
Gender: Female
Usage: Adelaide, of basque origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Adelaide are in general originating from France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Adelaide across the world, see Adelheid, Adélaïde.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Adelaide is: Noble kind, Noble.
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Numerology of the first name Adelaide: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond
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The name Adelaide is ranked on the 6,499th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 43500 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Adelaide has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Adelaide for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Adelaide is the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured".
The modern German form is Adelheid, famously the first name of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to William IV of the United Kingdom, for whom many places throughout the former British Empire were named.
The French form is Adélaïde or Adélaide and a Czech form is Adléta. The name Addie is a diminutive of Adelaide and Heidi is a nickname for Adelheid which became internationally popular on its own as a result of Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi (1880).
People so named include:
English (from French Adélaïde): of Germanic origin, composed of the elements adal noble + heid kind, sort. It was borne in the 10th century by the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great. She became regent after his death and was revered as a saint. The given name increased in popularity in England during the 19th century, when it was borne by the wife of King William IV; she was the daughter of the ruler of the German duchy of Saxe-Meiningen. The Australian city of Adelaide was named in her honour.
Pet form: Addie (esp. Irish).
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