Adàmu
surname · Latin script
Adàmu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).
- FIFinland1 in 429K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 446K
- SESweden1 in 464K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Adàmu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 236 (measured from records)
- 1 in 429K (inferred from the name graph)
13,574 named Adam, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Adam in US United States, ES Spain, BE Belgium and Adamu in NG Nigeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adàmu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,574as Adam | 1 in 25K | 496K | Adam | 236 |
| BE Belgium | — | 5,165as Adam | 1 in 2.3K | 5.2K | Adam | 79 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,746as Adam | 1 in 22K | 401K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,416as Adam | 1 in 5.9K | 1.4K | — | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,404as Adam | 1 in 3.9K | 19K | — | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 245as Ádám | 1 in 22K | 245 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 65 | 1 in 769K | 25K | Adam | 13 |
| FI Finland | — | 13 | 1 in 429K | 6.1K | — | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | #1 | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 19M | register #2 | Adamu | 122 |
13,574 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adàmu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Adàmu have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Adam, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Adàmu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adàmu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 429 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adàmu?
- In Spain, the national register counted 65 people named Adàmu, about 1 in 769 thousand residents.
- How common is Adàmu compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adàmu is the most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adàmu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ad%C3%A0muThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adàmu” — the most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.