Given name
Idelle
“one who is happy; bountiful”
Idelle is used as a given name. One Welsh interpretation is “one who is happy; bountiful.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Welsh interpretation is “one who is happy; bountiful.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Welsh.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1895. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Idelle through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 750
- 0 boys · 750 girls
- Most popular year
- 1921
- 36 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 36 in 1921. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 248 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Idelle’s family of names
Idelle has a related form in Idella. Idelle has a related form in Idelisa. Idelle has a related form in Idela.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
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 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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