Adabella

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 12 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
12
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Adabella by the numbers

Adabella was given to 12 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 26 babies in 2012, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Adabella

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Adabella. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Arabellayielding to prayer; beautiful altar1,368 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Anabellalovable grace; a form of annabel244 in the US (2017)
  • Amabellalovable; a form of Amabel7 in the US (2017)
  • Adabelle21 in the US (2017)
  • Avabella8 in the US (2017)
  • Annabellagrace and favor; form of Annabel663 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Adabella

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