Adelaide (given name)

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

Adelaide
Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
Pronunciation	/ˈædᵻleɪd/
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

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

• Saint Adelaide of Italy (died 999), wife of Otto the Great
• Adelaide of Aquitaine (died 1004)
• 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)
• 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
• Princess Adélaïde d'Orléans (1777–1847)

Other

• Adelaide Clemens (born 1989), Australian actress
• Adélaïde Dufrénoy (1765–1825), French poet and painter
• Adélaïde Victoire Hall (1772–1844), painter
• Adelaide Hoodless (1858–1910), Canadian educational reformer
• Adelaide Kane (born 1990), Australian actress
• Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803), French history and portrait painter
• Adélaïde Leroux (born 1982), French actress
• Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864), English poet and philanthropist

See also

• Marie-Adélaïde
• Adelheid
• Adelais