Adele is the English and Italian variant of Adela, a short form of Germanic names beginning with ‘adal’. This is Old German and means ‘noble’. The name Adela is known since at least the 7th century.
Adele is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Adele isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Adele ranks 650. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Adele. In the entire USA, approximately 31,326 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Adele. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Adele is the English and Italian variant of Adela, a short form of Germanic names beginning with ‘adal’. This is Old German and means ‘noble’. The name Adela is known since at least the 7th century.
Adele is known... in the US since the 19th century, but has always been a rare name. Since 2008, it is making a small comeback due to the influence of singer Adele Adkins, simply known as Adele.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With five letters, the name Adele is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Adele and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Adele, you can simply say:
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Adele
Adele
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
D
E
L
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
D
E
L
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Adele sounds like this:
