Adelaide (given name)

For notable persons named Adelaide, see Adelaide (disambiguation).
Adelaide

Pronunciation /ˈædld/
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Old High German
Meaning nobility
Region of origin Worldwide
Other names
Related names Addie, Addy, Adelheid, Heidi, Adele, Adela, Adelina, Adeline, Alice, Alison, Ethel
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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.

The French form is Adélaïde or Adélaide and a Czech form is 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 so named include:

Nobles

Other

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