Is Adel a male or female name?
Adel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Poland at 61% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 87%
- Sample size
- 16,143
- Confidence
- high
Adel by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 100% | 9,760 | insee |
| United States US | male | 50% | 2,946 | ssa |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 1,099 | ine |
| Switzerland CH | male | 87% | 662 | bfs |
| Poland PL | female | 61% | 527 | pesel |
| Canada CA | male | 92% | 453 | statcan |
| England and Wales GB | male | 69% | 420 | ons |
| Austria AT | male | 60% | 136 | statat |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 127 | ssb |
Attested in 41 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Adel over time
In the United States, 94.4% of the babies named Adel in the 1910s were girls, against 37.6% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Adel in the 1970s were girls, against 0.8% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 94% | 180 | — | |
| 1920s | 97% | 200 | — | |
| 1930s | 91% | 128 | — | |
| 1950s | 100% | 110 | — | |
| 1970s | 64% | 119 | 0% | 660 |
| 1980s | 34% | 226 | 0% | 1,005 |
| 1990s | 16% | 339 | 0% | 1,840 |
| 2000s | 24% | 519 | 0% | 2,485 |
| 2010s | 32% | 571 | 0% | 2,400 |
| 2020s | 38% | 279 | 1% | 1,285 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Adel with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Adel
Is Adel a male or female name?
Adel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Poland at 61% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Adel change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Adel identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.