Adela
Adela is a female first name.
Origin and Meaning
Adela is like the Nebenform Adele since the Middle Ages a short form of names - formed needle, especially Adelheid. In Spanish, it also occurs as a separate form of the name.
Name-day
Name saint is St. Adela of Pfalzel. Your feast day is December 24.
Variants
- French: Adèle
- English: Ethel
- Czech: Adela
Famous names winners
- Adela of Blois (c. 1062, † 1138 ), daughter of William I of England
- Adela of Champagne (1145-1206), Queen of France
- Elizabeth Adela Forbes (1859-1912), Canadian painter
- Adela of France ( probably in 1009 or * 1014, † 1079 ), Countess of Flanders and saints, even " Adela of Messines "
- Adela of Hamaland (955-1028), Countess in the present province of Gelderland and Drenthe
- Adela Florence Nicolson (1865-1904), English poet
- Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894-1988), American journalist, novelist and screenwriter
- Adela of Pfalzel (* 660, † 735 ), monastery founder and Holy
- Adela of Vohburg (* 1128, † after 1187 ), German Queen and Duchess of Swabia
- Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivian teacher and artist