Adam
15,473 people in the United States were counted with the surname Adam in the 2020 census, making it the 2,298th most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 15,473
- Rank
- 2,298th
- How common
- 1 in 19,300
- Per 100,000
- 5.2
Where the name comes from
Origin a patronymic
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Adam described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Adam
- Adolphe Adam (1803–1856)French composer
- Robert Adam (1728–1792)British neoclassical architect
- Charlie Adam (born 1985)Scottish footballer and manager
- Juliette Adam (1836–1936)French writer and salonnière
- Paul Adam (1862–1920)French novelist
- Ken Adam (1921–2016)UK motion picture production designer
- Wilhelm Adam (1877–1949)German general
- Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690–1732)(1690-1732) Prince of Liechtenstein
People named Adam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Adam
Also a first name
Adam has been given to 582,453 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1984. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.