Fun Facts About the Name Adalee
- More than 4 thousand babies named Adalee: U.S. records list 4,728 babies given the name Adalee from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Adalee Mean?
Adalee is an English feminine name formed from two familiar elements: Ada and the ending -lee. Ada derives from the Germanic element adal, meaning "noble," the same root behind Adelaide and Adela. The ending -lee, also spelled -leigh or -ley, comes from the Old English word lēah, which referred to a woodland, meadow, or clearing. Read literally, the parts mean "noble" plus "meadow."
"Noble meadow" is a customary reading of the combined elements rather than a translation recorded in an older language, since the name was not inherited whole from a single earlier form. A second explanation treats Adalee as an extended form of Adela or Adèle, with the -lee ending added; in that case the sense would be simply "noble." The two explanations agree on the first element, and both rely on the same Germanic root. The similar-looking biblical name Adalia is a separate name of uncertain derivation and should not be assumed to share this origin.
Adalee Name History & Origins
The elements that make up Adalee have separate histories. The Germanic root adal, "noble," underlies a family of medieval European names, including Old High German Adalheid, which became French Adélaïde and English Adelaide. Ada first served as a short form of such names and later stood on its own; it was well established as an independent English given name by the nineteenth century.
The ending -lee descends from Old English lēah, "woodland, meadow, clearing," a word that appears in English place names such as Bradley and Beverley and in surnames derived from them. During the twentieth century, -lee and -leigh became productive endings in English feminine given names, as in Kaylee and Ashlee. Adalee belongs to that later pattern, joining the older name Ada to a suffix that by then carried a general feminine, place-name flavor rather than a specific landscape meaning for each bearer.
Because the name combines these two common elements rather than descending from a single documented older form, there is no traditional saint, royal figure, or classical character attached to it. It has no long recorded history of its own, and its use is modern.
How Popular is the Name Adalee?
Adalee recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2022. Its best rank was #669 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #987 | 256 | 0.0159% |
| 2024 | #803 | 349 | 0.0216% |
| 2023 | #723 | 388 | 0.0242% |
| 2022 | #669 | 435 | 0.0265% |
| 2021 | #890 | 303 | 0.0185% |
| 2020 | #755 | 360 | 0.0223% |
| 2019 | #916 | 289 | 0.0172% |
| 2018 | #856 | 316 | 0.0186% |
| 2017 | #1,217 | 197 | 0.0114% |
| 2016 | #1,145 | 220 | 0.0124% |
| 2015 | #1,131 | 225 | 0.0126% |
| 2014 | #1,164 | 211 | 0.0118% |
| 2013 | #1,135 | 212 | 0.0121% |
| 2012 | #1,148 | 215 | 0.0122% |
| 2011 | #1,521 | 145 | 0.0082% |
| 2010 | #1,675 | 126 | 0.0071% |
| 2009 | #2,485 | 76 | 0.0041% |
| 2008 | #2,584 | 72 | 0.0038% |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 | 0.0030% |
| 2006 | #3,856 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | 0.0017% |
| 2004 | #5,557 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2003 | #7,208 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2002 | #4,905 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2001 | #7,726 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 2000 | #5,938 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1999 | #14,425 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #12,444 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #10,847 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1995 | #8,773 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1994 | #13,443 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1993 | #11,786 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1938 | #3,451 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1930 | #3,659 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1927 | #4,287 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1924 | #5,062 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1921 | #5,100 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1920 | #3,959 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1918 | #4,810 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | 0.0009% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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