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Adam
Pronounced /ˈædəm/
Rank in 2024
#100
Born in 2024
3,497
Peak year
1984 · #18
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:8 in 2024 (#12,109)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,497 boys were named Adam, about 1 in every 491.
- It peaked in 1984 with 23,940 babies, ranked #18.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 576,860 boys have been named Adam since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Adam per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.4Boomers1946–64
- 4.5Gen X1965–80
- 8.5Millennials1981–96
- 3.6Gen Z1997–12
- 2.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 9,180 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Silent: 4,454 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Boomers: 14,732 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Gen X: 123,606 babies, 4.54 per 1,000. Millennials: 257,739 babies, 8.47 per 1,000. Gen Z: 112,058 babies, 3.57 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 53,097 babies, 2.44 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈædəm/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Adam, CC BY-SA 4.0.