Adisa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: One who makes himself clear
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ədisə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adisa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- CZCzechia1 in 3.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
182 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
One who makes himself clear
Sources 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adisa 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.
182 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: the african-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Adisa is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The clear one.
as a nameThe African book of names
In Yoruba, A male oríkì name, meaning "One who is bound and displayed".
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Tunde Adisab. 1901NGNigerian para table tennis player
- Opal Palmer Adisab. 1954USAmerican poet and academic (born 1954)
- Lawrence Adisab. 1968USAmerican actor
- Ibikunle Adisab. 1983NGNigerian Entrepreneur
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 482 | #16,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 216 | #16,249 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 57 | #2,377 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 4 | #12,413 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | The African Book of Names (Hodari, 2003) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | A Handbook of African Names (Asante, 1976) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | naija-faker — Nigerian Given Names by Ethnicity (Hausa/Igbo/Yoruba) | — | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | Nigerian names by ethnicity (naijafaker, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Adisa mean, and where does it come from?
- One who makes himself clear Recorded by The book of African names.
- How do you pronounce Adisa?
- A machine transcription gives /ədisə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Adisa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 182 people named Adisa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adisa.
- Where is Adisa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adisa is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adisa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 182 people named Adisa in 2010, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
- How common is Adisa compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Adisa is the 240th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adisaThe 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, “Adisa” — the 240th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.