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I have a cousin Adele (my best-friend, she is 18). My mother also has a friend Adel (she is in her 50s). I have always loved the name. I think Adele is the best spelling, Adelle has to many letters for how simple the name is and (at least for someone in the US) I find names with accents pretentious and sometimes kind of trashy (like the parents were trying to hard to be classy). Adeline is cute, but it seems kind of incomplete to me. Like it should be Madeline but someone typoed. I love Adelaide though. I think that with the name Addison becoming so popular people are going to turn to other "Ad" names (Adele, Adeline, Adelaide) as alternatives but I don't really see any getting to popular.