Adelheid: Meaning, Popularity, Origin of Baby Name Adelheid | Girls
Origin of the name Adelaide:
Variant of the Germanic Adelheid (nobility), a compound name composed of the elements adal (noble) and heit (kind, sort): hence, "nobility."
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Heidi, Adele, Alke
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Adelheid is the original German name from which Adelaide was derived. It means "nobility", and came from the Old High German name Adelheidis. Pronounced AH-del-hite.
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Many members of German and Austrian royalty have been given this name.
Adelheid Arndt, German actress
Adelheid Tröscher, German politician
Adelheid Popp, Austrian woman's rights activist- Adelheid in song, story & screen: | Edit
The character Heidi in Johanna Spyri's eponymous novel was named Adelheid after her mother. Heidi was her nickname.
"Adelheid", Czechoslovak film by František Vláčil
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