first name
ADELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 21,729 people named Adela, 83% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino, 10.8% as White and 4.4% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.7%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Adela peaked in 2015, when 227 babies got the name.
At least 14,105 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Adela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #830. The largest share of babies named Adela, 18.8%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Adela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Adela has been most common in New Mexico (7.6×), Texas (5.4×), and California (2.8×), and least common in Ohio (0.12×).
9,642 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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