Adela

Adela is a feminine given name .

Origin and meaning

Like the subsidiary form Adele, Adela has been a short form of names that are formed with Adel since the Middle Ages, especially Adelheid . In Spanish it also occurs as a separate name form.

name day

Patron saint is Saint Adela von Pfalzel . Her feast day is December 24th .

variants

• French : Adèle
• English : Ethel
• Czech : Adéla

Well-known namesake

middle Ages

• Adela von Pfalzel (* 660; † around 735), monastery founder and saint
• Adela von Hamaland (955-1028), countess in today's province of Gelderland and Drenthe
• Adela of France (* probably 1009 or 1014; † 1079), Countess of Flanders and saint, also "Adela of Messines"
• Adela von Blois (* around 1062, † 1138), daughter of William I of England
• Adela of Flanders (* around 1064, † 1115), by marriage Queen of Denmark, later Duchess of Apulia and Calabria
• Adela von Vohburg (* 1128, † after 1187), German Queen and Duchess of Swabia
• Adela of Champagne (1145–1206), Queen of France
• Adelheid von Meißen (* after 1160, † 1211), first wife of the Bohemian King Ottokar I. Přemysl

Modern times

• Adéla Bruns (* 1987), Czech sports shooter
• Adela Florow (* 1961), German actress, radio play and voice actress
• Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859–1912), Canadian painter
• Adéla Kettnerová (* 1996), Czech grass skier
• Adela Liculescu (* 1993), Romanian pianist of classical music
• Adela Florence Nicolson (1865–1904), English poet
• Adela Pankhurst (1885–1961), British-Australian suffragette and political activist
• Adela Ratu (* 1993), Romanian soccer player
• Adela Sequeyro (1901–1992), Mexican actress, film director, journalist and writer
• Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988), American journalist, writer and screenwriter
• Adela Úcar (* 1980), Spanish journalist and television presenter
• Adela Verne (1877–1952), English composer, pianist and music teacher
• Adela Wilgocka (1875–1960), Polish singer (soprano) and singing teacher
• Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), Bolivian teacher and artist

As a family name

• Jean-Paul Adela (* 1987), Seychellois soccer player

See also

• La Adelita , legendary Mexican revolutionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beate Varnhorn: Bertelsmann, The large lexicon of first names . Wissen-Media-Verlag, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07694-4 , p. 12 ( full text in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ Duden: The large first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Mannheim 2007. ISBN 9783411060832
3. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  ADELA (Adolana, Adula). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 33-34.