Adele (given name)

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Field	Value
name	Adele
name day	24 December (Italy)
gender	Female
origin	German
pronunciation
meaning	'Nobility' in German, from Proto-Germanic aþalą; cf. English athel*
seealso	Adela, Adelaide, Adelheid, Adelia, Adeline, Zélie
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Adele (also spelled Adèle) is a feminine given name meaning 'nobility'. It derives from German Adel meaning 'nobility' or adal, 'noble'. In Italy its name day is 24 December in honor of Adela of Pfalzel.

Its male form is the Germanic given name Adel.

The name, also spelled Adel, is also in use in Israel, where it stands for the Hebrew phrase esh dat lamo (אש דת למו) or a fiery law unto them, used in reference to the Torah.

People with the given name

A–F

Adèle of Champagne (1140–1206), French queen consort
Adèle Charvet (born 1993), French mezzo-soprano
Adèle of Dreux, French countess
Adele of Meaux (950–980), French countess
Adele of Valois, French countess
Adele of Vermandois (910–960), French countess
Adele Addison (born 1925), American singer
Adele Adkins, professionally known just as Adele (born 1988), English singer-songwriter
Adele Ajosun (died 1837), Oba of Lagos
Adèle Almati (1861–1919), German-Swedish opera singer
Adèle Anderson (born 1952), British singer
Adele Änggård (1933–2023), British-Swedish costume and stage designer
Adele Anthony (born 1970), Australian musician
Adele Arakawa (born 1958), American news anchor
Adele Astaire (1897–1981), American singer and dancer
Adelle August (1934–2005), American movie actress
Adele Laeis Baldwin (1864–1927), American singer
Adèle Bayer (1814–1892), Belgian missionary
Adelle Blackett, Canadian legal scholar
Adele Boyd (1932–2018), American field hockey player
Adele Broadbent (born 1968), New Zealand children's author
Adele Carles (born 1968), Australian politician
Adèle Castillon (born 2001), French singer and actress
Adèle Christiaens, Belgian fencer
Adele Clarke (1945–2024), American sociologist
Adele Cutler, English-born New Zealand and American statistician
L. Adele Cuinet (1854/55-1933), pioneer American dental surgeon
Adelle Davis (1904–1974), American author
Adele DeGarde (1899–1972), American actress
Adele DeLeeuw (1899–1988), American writer
Adele Diamond, Canadian psychologist
Adele Dixon (1908–1992), English actor
Adele Dunlap (1902–2017), American teacher and nation's oldest living person at the time of her death
Adele Duttweiler (1892–1990), Swiss philanthropist
Adèle Exarchopoulos, French actress
Adele Faccio (1920–2007), Italian politician
Adele Farina (born 1964), Australian politician
Adele Ferguson, Australian investigative journalist
Adele Fifield (born 1966), Canadian director

G–R

Adele Garrison, American writer
Adèle Geras (born 1944), English writer
Adele Girard (1913–1993), American jazz harpist
Adele Givens, American actress
Adele Goldberg (linguist) (born 1963), American linguist
Adele Goldberg (computer scientist) (born 1945), American computer scientist
Adele Goldstine (1920–1964), American computer scientist
Adele Khoury Graham (born 1938), Lebanese educator
Adele Griffin (born 1970), American writer
M. Adelle Hazlett (1837–1911), American women's suffrage leader
Adèle Haenel (born 1989), French actress
Adele C. Howells (1886–1951), American general president of the Primary
Adèle Hugo (1830–1915), French diary writer and daughter of author Victor Hugo
Adèle Isaac (1854–1915), French opera singer
Adele James, British actor and screenwriter
Adele Jergens (1917–2002), American actress
Adele Kern (1901–1980), German soprano opera and operetta singer
Adèle Kindt (1804–1884), Belgian painter
Adele King (born 1951), Irish entertainer
Adele Kurzweil (1925–1942), Austrian Holocaust victim
Adèle Caby-Livannah (born 1957), African writer
Adelle Lutz (born 1948), American artist
Adele Mara (1923–2010), American actress
Adele Marcus (1906–1995), American pianist
Adele Megann (born 1962), Canadian writer
Adele Morales (1925–2015), American painter and memoirist
Adele Nicoll (born 1996), Welsh shot putter, discus thrower and bobsledder
Adele aus der Ohe (1864–1937), German pianist and composer
Adelle Onyango (born 1989), Kenyan radio presenter
Adele Parks (born 1969), English novelist
Adele Passy-Cornet (1838–1915), German opera singer
Adele W. Paxson (1913–2000), American socialite
Adele Racheli (1897–1992), Italian engineer, co-founder of patent protection office
Adele Raemer, American-Israeli blogger
Adele Ramos, Belizean poet, author, journalist and publisher
Adele Reinhartz, Canadian academic
Adele Roberts (born 1979), British radio DJ and television personality
Adel Rootstein (1930–1992), British mannequin designer
Adele Rose (1933–2020), British television writer
Adele Rova, (born 1996) Fijian swimmer

S–Z

Adele Emily Sandé, known as Emeli Sandé (born 1987), Scottish singer-songwriter
Adele Sandrock (1863–1937), German actress
Adele Silva (born 1980), British soap actress
Adele Simpson (1903–1995), American fashion designer
Adele Spitzeder (1832–1895), German actor, folk singer and confidence trickster
Adele Stolte (1932–2020), German soprano singer
Adelle Stripe (born 1976), English poet
Adele Stürzl (1892–1944), Austrian resistance fighter
Adelle Tracey (born 1993), American-born middle-distance runner
Adèle de Batz de Trenquelléon (1789–1828), French nun
Adele Tucker (1868–1971), Bermudian schoolteacher and trade unionist
Adele Ann Wilby (born 1950), Australian activist
Adelle Waldman (born 1977), American writer
Adèle Wetterlind (1854–1938), Swedish educator and suffragist
Adele Wiseman (1928–1992), Canadian author
Adele Wong (born 1983), Singaporean actress

Fictional characters

Adele Airota, mother-in-law of the narrator Elena in the Neapolitan Novels
Adele Azupadi, a character in the TV series The Story of Tracy Beaker
- Elena's daughter, also named Adele Airota, but always called Dede
Adèle Blanc-Sec, main character of Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec written by Jacques Tardi
Adele Ferguson, a character in the novel Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Adele Mundy, Communications Officer, librarian, and spy in David Drake's RCN Series of space opera novels
Adèle Ratignolle, a standard of feminine beauty in the American classic The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Adele Stackhouse, Sookie's grandmother in True Blood
Adèle Varens, the young French ward of Mr. Rochester in the novel Jane Eyre and its adaptations

References

(2007). "The Baby Name Bible: The Ultimate Guide By America's Baby-Naming Experts". Macmillan.
(25 May 2022). "20 nomi femminili vintage (ma ancora bellissimi)".
(19 September 2023). "The 20 Most Popular Jewish Baby Names in Israel".

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