Ade
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: a male given name from Javanese
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈadə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ade is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 631(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.3K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 19K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 631 (inferred from the name graph)
≈420,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ade is read(measured from records)
Ade is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Indonesian74%
a male given name from Javanese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English15%
from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble'
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
pet-form of Adam; first attested Thomas Ade 1327 SRSx
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ade 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #26 | ≈420,000 est. | ≈1 in 631 | — | Ade | 233 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈64,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Ade | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Ade | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Ade | 105 |
| US United States | — | 954 | 1 in 349K | 1.6K | Ade | 166 |
| SG Singapore | #910 | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Ade | 26 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 47 | — | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Ade 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.
In Welsh, Apparently a hypocoristic Welsh form related to Adam; no dated citation on this page.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
Adws, B15,50, AS 1406 Adws Of. Occurrenceof'apAdy, Thomas ap Addey' in Oswestry neighbourhood suggests that surname Baddy derives from Ap Ady, although the surname of Thomas Baddy, 18th cent. hymnwriter has been stated to derive from some form of Madog. For Ap Ady, v. Cal Pat Rolls, Edward VI, vo!. iii, p.284, owner oflands around Oswestry, Trefonnen.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
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)
- Ade Hamnettb. 1882GBEnglish footballer (1882-1956)
- Ade Chandrab. 1950IDbadminton player
- Ade Cokerb. 1954USNigerian-American soccer player
- Ade Mafeb. 1966GBBritish sprinter
- Adé Bantub. 1971DENigerian-German musician, producer and social activist
- Ade Akinbiyib. 1974GBassociation football player
- Ade Olufekob. 1980USTechnologist, designer and entrepreneur of Ijebu ancestry
- Ade Alleyne-Forteb. 1988TTSprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- Ade Yusufb. 1993IDIndonesian badminton player
- Ade Resky Dwicahyob. 1998IDAzerbaijani badminton 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)
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 70 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 643 | #12,848 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 311 | #12,848 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 47 | #1,099 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 9 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Is Ade a male or female name?
- Ade 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.
- What does the name Ade mean?
- In Indonesian, a male given name from Javanese
- Where does the name Ade come from?
- from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Ade?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈadə/ (IPA) for Indonesian.
- What are other forms of the name Ade?
- In the etymology graph, Adam, Fito and Atte are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ade have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 423 thousand people named Ade in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ade.
- How common is the name Ade?
- In the United States, the national register counted 954 people named Ade in 2020, about 1 in 349 thousand residents.
- How common is Ade compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Ade is the 26th most common given name of 270,909 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adeThe 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, “Ade” — the 26th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.