Meaning & origin
Adèle’s family of names
In French usage, Adèle has a diminutive in Adeline. In French usage, Adèle shares a linguistic root with the Walloon form Adele. In French usage, Adèle has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Adela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Adèle has relatives in 14 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Adèle comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Adeleborrowing · German, Italian
- Adeladerivative · Polish, Spanish
- Adeleineequivalent
- Adeliceequivalent
- Adulaequivalent
- Aadederivative · Estonian
- Adeelederivative · Estonian
- Adélborrowing · Hungarian
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People named Adèle
- Adèle ExarchopoulosFrench actress (born 1993)
- Adela of ChampagneQueen of the Franks from 1160 to 11801140–1206
- Adèle HaenelFrench actressborn 1989
- Adela of NormandyCountess of Blois from 1089 to 11021067–1137
- Adela of FranceCountess of Flanders (1009–1079)
- Adela of FlandersDanish royal consort1065–1115
- Adèle Hugo2nd daughter of Victor Hugo (1830–1915)
- Adèle CastillonFrench singer and actressborn 2001
- Adèle KindtBelgian painter (1804-1884)
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