 The name was given by the independent discoverer Max Wolf.The author of the "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", Lutz Schmadel, learned about the meaning of the asteroid's name from R. Bremer and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, latter who worked as a young astronomer at Heidelberg.Based on the overall spectral type of the Eunomia family, "Adele" is likely a common, stony S-type asteroid.