Adan

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Yoruba: “a large bat”

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/aðan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Adan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 72nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 2.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 670as Adam

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 Adan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

496,300 named Adam, 2020

Sources
382 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Honduras, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Adam in US United States, SE Sweden.

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)

Yoruba: “a large bat.”

Sources 1

  • African Names

Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Adan, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adan 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.

Where Adan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#869496,300as Adam1 in 670496KAdam382
PL Poland—400,572as Adam1 in 96401KAdan26
CZ Czechia—95,674as Adam1 in 11296K——
HU Hungary—63,701as Ádám1 in 15364K—1
SE Sweden—36,154as Adam1 in 28236KAdam43
HN Honduras#85≈6,100 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Adan28
EC Ecuador—3,3251 in 5.1K3.3KAdan30
NI Nicaragua#72≈2,200 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Adan24

496,300 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adan is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Peru

    Also written Adán, Adàn, Àdàn, Ádàñ

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Adán, Ádan, Adàn

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Adán, Adàn, Ãdãn, Ãdan

  • Turkish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Somalia, Peru

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Adán, Ädän, Ädâń

  • Danish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Norway, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Adán

  • Finnish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Finland, Spain

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Adán

  • Lao given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Chile

    Also written Adán, Ädán, Ádan, Adàn

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Adan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, Spanish: from biblical Adam.

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In Arabic, Good fortune.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • Biblical. See }Adam in main dictionary.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • Jardín del Edén

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Kurdish, Fruitful, fertile

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Adán Cárdenas, b. 1836Adán Godoy, b. 1936Adán Martín Menis, b. 1943Adán Chávez, b. 1953Adán Augusto López, b. 1963Adan Jodorowsky, b. 1979Adan Canto, b. 1981Adán Vergara, b. 1981Adan Balbín, b. 1986Adán Gurdiel Mella, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Adan,Hi Adan, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 97 sources across 47 countries.

Official registers attesting Adan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202034K#1,153
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20243.3K#355
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025625—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020229#1,153
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020186—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202488—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202635#4,266
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—31#4,343

Reference works 8

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Adan mean, and where does it come from?
Yoruba: “a large bat.” Recorded by African Names.
How do you pronounce Adan?
A machine transcription gives /aðan/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Adan a male or female name?
Adan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Adan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 496 thousand people named Adam, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Adan?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 3,325 people named Adan in 2024, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
How common is Adan compared with other names?
In the United States, Adan is the 869th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Adan” — the 869th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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