Adelaide (given name)
Appearance
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Pronunciation | /ˈædɪleɪd/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Old High German |
Meaning | nobility |
Region of origin | World wide |
Other names | |
Related names | Addie, Addy, Adi, Adelheid, Adel, Heidi, Adelle, Adèle, Adela, Adelina, Adeline, Alice, Alison, Ethel |
Adelaide is the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured".
The modern German form is Adelheid, famously the first name of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to William IV of the United Kingdom, for whom many places throughout the former British Empire were named.[citation needed]
The French form is Adélaïde or Adélaide and Czech is Adéla or Adléta. The name Addie is a diminutive of Adelaide and Heidi is a nickname for Adelheid which became internationally popular on its own as a result of Johanna Spyri's novel Heidi (1880).
People with the name
Notable people so named include:
Nobles
- Saint Adelaide of Italy (died 999), wife of Otto the Great
- Adelaide of Aquitaine (died 1004)
- Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (died 1015)
- Adelaide of Susa (died 1091)
- Adelaide del Vasto (died 1118)
- Adélaide de Maurienne (1092–1154)
- Adelaide of Poland (died 1211)
- Adelaide of Holland (1230–1284)
- Adélaïde of France (1732–1800)
- Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777–1847)
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792–1849), Queen Consort of William IV of the United Kingdom
- Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1831–1909) Queen Consort of Miguel I of Portugal
Other people
- Adelaide George Bennett (1848–1911), American poet and botanist
- Adelaide Avery Claflin (1846–1931), American woman suffragist and ordained minister
- Adelaide Clemens (born 1989), Australian actress
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), French poet and painter
- Adelaide Dutcher (fl. 1901), American physician and public health worker
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), painter
- Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910), Canadian educational reformer
- Adelaide Kane (born 1990), Australian actress
- Adelaide Knight (1871–1950), British suffragette
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), French history and portrait painter
- Adélaïde Leroux (born 1982), French actress
- Adelaide Miethke (1881–1962), Australian educator
- Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), English poet and philanthropist
- Jeff Jason Reine-Adélaïde (born 1998), French footballer
- Adelaide Wallerstein (1869–1942), American translator, medical doctor, lawyer and clubwoman
Fictional characters
- Adelaide, A character on the television series "Over the Garden Wall"
- Miss Adelaide, a character in the musical Guys and Dolls
- Adelaide Brubaker, a character on the television series Diff'rent Strokes
- Adelaide "Addy" Wilson, a character on the television series Gimme a Break!
- Adelaide Wilson née Thomas, a character in the movie Us (2019)
- Adelaide Brooke, a character in the Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars"
- Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, a character in the Disney movie The Aristocats [1]
See also
- Adelaide, city in South Australia
- Adelais
- Adelheid
- Alice (given name)
- Marie-Adélaïde
References
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