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Adelheid - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Adelheid
 
 


The girl name Adelheid [ syll. a-del-hei(d), ad-elhe-id ] is pronounced as AEDEHLHH-IYD KEY. Adelheid is primarily used in the Dutch, German, and Scandinavian languages, and its language of origin is Germanic. Variants of Adelheid include the short form Heide (German), and the pet forms Adda (German), Aletta (French and Frisian), Alette (French and Frisian), Alke (German), Elke (Frisian and German), Elkf (Dutch and Frisian), Heidi (German), and Tale (Dutch and German). Adelheid is a variant form of the English and Italian name Adelaide.

Adelheid is rarely used as a baby name for girls. It is not ranked within the top 1000 names. In 2007, among the group of girl names directly linked to Adelheid, the German Heidi was the most commonly used.

Baby names that sound like Adelheid include the English Adalaide, the English and Italian Adelaide, the French Adélaïde, the English and Spanish Adelaida, the Polish Adelajda, and the Spanish Adelita.

KEY: approx English pronunciation for Adelheid: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; HH as in "he (HH.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)"


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