Adelaide (given name)
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 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.People with the name
Notable people so named include:Nobles
- Saint Adelaide of Italy, wife of Otto the Great
- Adelaide of Aquitaine
- Saint Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich
- Adelaide of Susa
- Adelaide del Vasto
- Adélaide de Maurienne
- Adelaide of Poland
- Adelaide of Holland
- Adélaïde of France
- Adélaïde d'Orléans
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of William IV of the United Kingdom
- Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg Queen Consort of Miguel I of Portugal
Other people
- Adelaide George Bennett, American poet and botanist
- Adelaide Avery Claflin, American woman suffragist and ordained minister
- Adelaide Clemens, Australian actress
- Adélaïde Dufrénoy, French poet and painter
- Adelaide Dutcher, American physician and public health worker
- Adélaïde Victoire Hall, painter
- Adelaide Hoodless, Canadian educational reformer
- Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
- Adelaide Knight, British suffragette
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, French history and portrait painter
- Adélaïde Leroux, French actress
- Adelaide Miethke, Australian educator
- Adelaide Anne Procter, English poet and philanthropist
- Jeff Jason Reine-Adélaïde, French footballer
- Adelaide Wallerstein, 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
- Adelaide Brooke, a character in the Doctor Who episode "The Waters of Mars"
- Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, a character in the Disney movie The Aristocats
