Given name
Adélaïde
“noble”·“character”
Adélaïde is a feminine given name from Old High German. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Adélaïde is built from elements meaning “noble” and “character”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In French usage, Adélaïde developed from ADALHEID.
Adélaïde’s family of names
In French usage, Adélaïde has a diminutive in Adé. In French usage, Adélaïde shares an earlier linguistic root with Alice. In French usage, Adélaïde has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form ADELAIDA.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Adélaïde has relatives in 11 languages. Lines run from its Old High German roots to each of them.
Old High Germanwhere Adélaïde comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 12
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Alicedoublet · French
- Adelaideborrowing · Portuguese, English
- AdelaidaSpanish
- Adalaideequivalent
- Adelheidcognate · German, Dutch
- Adelaïdaequivalent
- Adelayitecognate · Walloon
- Adelideequivalent
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People named Adélaïde
- Adélaïde Labille-GuiardFrench painter and miniaturist (1749–1803)
- Alys of France, Countess of Vexindaughter of King Louis VII of France and his second wife Constance of Castile1160–1210
- Adélaïde of FranceFrench noblewoman (1732-1800)
- Adélaïde CharlierBelgian climate activist (born 2000)
- Adélaïde DufrénoyFrench poet and painter (1765–1825)
- Adélaïde FassinouBeninese writer and Benin's General Secretary for UNESCOborn 1955
- Azalais of ToulouseFrench noble1200–1200
- AdéFrench singer-songwriterborn 1995
- Adélaïde-Louise d'Eckmühl de BlocquevilleFrench poet and salon-holder1815–1892
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Similar names
If you love Adélaïde, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“noble”
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“wealth, riches”
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Adalheidis
“heath, pasture”
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“noble”
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Othelie
“wealth, riches”
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Abendroth
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Othilie
“wealth, riches”
>99% girls