Adame
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/aˈdame/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Adame is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- MXMexico≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 21K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 265 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Mexico, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adame 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #376 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 1.1K | Adame | 172 |
| US United States | — | 16,193 | 1 in 21K | 16K | Adame | 265 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Adame | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,918 | 1 in 17K | 2.9K | Adame | 102 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,692 | 1 in 125K | 1.7K | Adame | 60 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #647 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Adame | 14 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Adame is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, locative singular of Ãdamas (“Adam”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of Ādāmus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of Adam
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In aa, chase, hunt
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)- Francisco Adame de Montemayorb. 1538ESSpanish writer
- Manuel Adame Misab. 1901ESSpanish politician and trade unionist (1901-1945)
- Francisca Adame Hensb. 1922ESSpanish human rights activist
- Alfredo Adameb. 1958MXMexican actor
- Rafael Díazb. 1970MXnot in their usual nameMexican baseball player
- Gilberto Adameb. 1972MXMexican footballer and manager
- Juan Pablo Adameb. 1985MXMexican politician
- Francisco Domínguez-AdameESphysicist
- Jorge AdameMXresearcher
- Celia Adame MirandaESSpanish information scientist
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,250 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,224 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,791 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.9K | #1,758 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.9K | #1,758 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,694 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 1.1K | #320 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- How do you pronounce Adame?
- In Spanish /aˈdame/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Adame have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Adame in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adame.
- How common is the name Adame?
- In the United States, the national register counted 16,193 people named Adame in 2010, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Adame compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Adame is the 376th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adame?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adameThe 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, “Adame” — the 376th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.