Adam

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Adam boys named Adam

By the numbers

Total US births

582,453

Estimated living today

537,000

Median age today

37

Peak year

1984

Best rank

18th

Rank in 2025

101st

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

2,075 / 580,378

How old the living Adams are

born that year still alive today

Of the 582,453 babies given the name since 1880, about 537,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 84,000 of them are children and 4,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1988 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ, Ἄδαμος, from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (“earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (“red earth, ground”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Adams

• Adam Smith (1723–1790)Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
• Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855)Polish national poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, and political activist
• Adam Sandler (born 1966)American actor and comedian
• Adam Levine (born 1979)American singer
• Adam Riess (born 1969)American astrophysicist
• Adam Driver (born 1983)American actor
• Adam Lambert (born 1982)American singer
• Adam Weishaupt (1748–1830)German philosopher and founder of the Illuminati

People named Adam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Adam is most common

• CA61,639
• NY45,360
• TX35,677
• OH32,261
• IL30,725
• PA29,891
• MI26,728
• FL20,938
• MA16,459
• IN16,313

Relative to how many babies each state records, Adam is most concentrated in New Hampshire (1.8×), Vermont (1.6×), Alaska (1.5×), Utah (1.4×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1984

The most popular boys’ names the year Adam peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• David
• Daniel

All the names of 1984

Adam elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Adam: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Adam is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.42% of children were given it – 429 of them.

Adam: rank by region

In 2025, Adam was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 12 different years.

In 2024, Adam was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Spain, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 7 different years.

In 2024, Adam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Adam was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Adam appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (1st), Province of Liège (2nd), Province of Antwerp (4th), Province of Flemish Brabant (5th), Province of Hainaut (16th), Province of Limburg (17th), Province of East Flanders (17th), Province of Namur (25th), Province of Walloon Brabant (27th), Province of Luxembourg (27th) and Province of West Flanders (33rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Adam by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Adam among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Adam lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 25,015 men called Adam were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Ada
• Adalynn
• Adan
• Adalyn
• Adaline
• Adalee
• Adalberto
• Adah
• Adair
• Adamaris
• Adara
• Adalia

Adam against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Adam vs Ada
• Adam vs Adalynn
• Adam vs Adan
• Adam vs Adalyn
• Adam vs Adaline
• Adam vs Adalee

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