Adès

surname · Latin script

Adès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 843 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.

  • USUnited States1 in 395K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 548K
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)

843 people, 2010

Record sources
119 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 395K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ades in FR France, US United States.

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)

From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Adès is found

(measured from records)

Adès 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 Adès is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8431 in 395K843Ades48
AR Argentina831 in 548K83——
FR France≈11 est.≈1 in 6.2M21Ades119
ES Spain91 in 5.6M9—3
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——

843 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)

Adès is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Arabic, German

    Also written Ades, Ãdes

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Adés, Ädes, Ades

  • Greek surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Greece

    Also written Ades, Adis, Άδης, ἍΙδης, Αδης

3 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19401950196019701980Timothy Adès, b. 1941Charles Adès Fishman, b. 1942Thomas Adès, b. 1971

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Adès under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Adès mean, and where does it come from?
From a diminutive of Adam + the patronymic suffix -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Adès?
In the United States, the national register counted about 843 people named Adès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ades. After it come Argentina, France, Spain and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Adès most common?
Adès is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 395 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Adès?
In the United States, the national register counted 843 people named Adès in 2010, about 1 in 395 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ad%C3%A8s

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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, “Adès” — ranked 28333rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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