Comments for the name Adela

Adella is one of the sisters of Ariel in the Little Mermaid.

Ádela was the Old English word for 'mud'.

This is one version of the name of Mr. Rochester's "adopted" daughter in Charlotte Bronte's classic novel "Jane Eyre". Adele, as Jane calls her, was the daughter of Celene Varens, a former French opera singer.

Actually the little foundling "adopted" by Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre was named Adele, as she was French. Mr Rochester and Jane call her Adela, the English version of her name.

Another spelling of "Adela" is "Adella". The names are come across in Italy.

Adela is a gorgeous name that manages to be simple but still interesting. It's dignified and feminine.

People who are named Adela can stir forth a multiple number of traits. The best and the worst. I once knew a girl named Adella (which is my preferred way of spelling it) and she was very knowledgeable, generous, humble and talented. She was also the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. But yet Adela sounds like it could be the name of a very prudent woman. Which ever it could be, I think Adella is a very nice name. =)

A Romanian writer, Garabet Ibraileanu, wrote a great novel with this name.

Frederico Garcia Lorca wrote the play "The House of Bernada Alba", in which the youngest daughter is named Adella.

Adela is very sweet name, it will age well. I prefer spelling Adella.

Has also been used as a girl's name in Slovenia.

The name of the youngest daughter in Lorca's play La Casa de Bernarda Alba. In the play, she's very passionate and emotional--which eventually leads to her downfall. (*trying not to give away the ending entirely*)

I think it sounds beautiful but snobby. In Sweden "adel" means "nobility".

Besides its German origins (deriving from adal - noble) another supposition is that this name comes from ancient Greek, where "adelos" meant hidden, hard to comprehend, secretive.

Like others have mentioned, Adela is the youngest daughter in The House of Bernarda Alba, which is where I was first introduced to this name. I think it is very pretty!

I think this name sounds very natural and like it belongs to someone very strong but feminine, too.

The protagonist of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India bears this name.

This is also a girls' name in Croatia.

This is my niece's name, spelled Adella. It makes a nice, cute name for a little girl, but is also suitable for an adult.

Saint Adela
Feastday: February 24
Adela was the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror. She had an active role in English politics and she was famed for endowing churches and monastic institutions. Died: 24 February 1137

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Saint Adela of Pfalzel
Feastday : December 24
She was one of the daughters of Dagobert II, King of the Franks. Her sister was Saint Irmina of Oehren. She was Princess, she married with Alberic and she had a son. After her husband&'s death, she goes to the monastery and became a nun. She founded the convent of Palatiolum of Pfalsel near Trier, Germany in 690, and served as its first abbess.
Died: 24 December 735.

Stunning, magnificent, lovely name and my all time favorite girls name, this will be the name of my first daughter.

Adela Pankhurst (1885–1961) was a British-Australian suffragette, political organiser, and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First Movement. Born in Manchester, she emigrated to Australia in 1914 and spent her life in political activism for both the far-left and the far-right of politics.

Stunning name. Much prefer the spelling Adella.

I want to like this name, but when it is said aloud, all I can think of is mortadella.

This is really pretty! I like it a lot more than just Adele.