Adama
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Female form of Adam; Eve-associated name
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/adama/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adama is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Senegal than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name.
- SNSenegal≈1 in 134(inferred from the name graph)
- MLMali≈1 in 712
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Senegal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
≈120,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Senegal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Female form of Adam; Eve-associated name.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adama 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SN Senegal | #21 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 134 | 77 | Adama | 62 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #556 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 256 | — | Adama | 34 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #13 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 268 | — | Adama | 23 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Adama | 26 |
| GN Guinea | — | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 284 | 6 | — | 18 |
| ML Mali | #6 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 712 | — | Adama | 43 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,192 | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Adama | 49 |
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: DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026. 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)
Adama 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.
Majestic
as a nameThe book of African names
In Swahili, Hausa-Fulani feminine form of Adam
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Igbo, Ibo: beautiful child or queenly.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Swahili, born on Friday
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
beautiful child
as a nameAfrican Names
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)
- Adama Barrowb. 1965GM3rd President of the Gambia
- Adama Nianeb. 1966FRFrench actor (1966–2023)
- Adama Coulibalyb. 1980MLMalian footballer
- Adama Guirab. 1988BFBurkinabé footballer
- Adama Diomandeb. 1990NONorwegian association football player
- Adama Traoréb. 1990AUIvoirian-Australian footballer
- Adama Mbengueb. 1993SNSenegalese footballer (born 1993)
- Adama Traoréb. 1995MLMalian footballer (born 28 June 1995)
- Adama Traoréb. 1995MLMalian footballer (born 5 June 1995)
- Adama Traoréb. 1996ESSpanish association football player
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 77 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #1,628 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #845 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 449 | #2,301 |
| SN Senegal | DGE — candidate declarations, 41 party/coalition lists (legislatives anticipees 17 Nov 2024) | 2024 | 77 | #17 |
| GN Guinea | DGE — Liste provisoire des candidatures communales Conakry 2026 | 2026 | 6 | #10 |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Adama mean, and where does it come from?
- Female form of Adam; Eve-associated name. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Adama a male or female name?
- Adama is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Adama?
- A machine transcription gives /adama/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Adama have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 118 thousand people named Adama in Senegal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adama.
- How common is the name Adama?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,192 people named Adama, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Adama compared with other names?
- In Senegal, Adama is the 21st most common given name of 3,375 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adama?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adamaThe 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, “Adama” — the 21st most common given name in Senegal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.