# Adelheid (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adelheid/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 225 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 225 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | 16,810 |
| 2012 | 6 | 14,996 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,018 |
| 2014 | 19 | 6,455 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,161 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7,238 |
| 2017 | 12 | 8,792 |
| 2018 | 13 | 8,155 |
| 2019 | 12 | 8,606 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,113 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8,032 |
| 2022 | 17 | 6,713 |
| 2023 | 13 | 8,064 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6,171 |
| 2025 | 10 | 9,466 |

## People named Adelheid

- Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Duchess of Nassau, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1833–1916)
- Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein from 1869 to 1880
- Adelheid Popp, Austrian feminist and socialist (1869–1939)
- Princess Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
- Adelheid Kofler, Austrian physical chemist, mineralogist and ophthalmologist (1889-1985)
- Adelheid Morath, German cross-country mountain biker (born 1984)
- Adelheid Dietrich, German painter (1827-1891)
- Adelheid Seeck, German film actress (1912–1973)
- Adelheid Arndt, German actress
- Archduchess Adelaide of Austria, Archduchess of Austria, queen consort of Sardinia (1849-1855)
- Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Danish princess (1888-1962)
- Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Archduchess of Austria, Austrian archduchess (1846-1927)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.