Adamo
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: first-person singular present indicative of adamar
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/aðamo/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Adamo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 36Kfew records
- UYUruguay1 in 37K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)first-person singular present indicative of adamar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
How Adamo is read
(measured from records)Adamo is one spelling over 4 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.
- English56%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Adamo in English.
- Spanish16%
first-person singular present indicative of adamar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian6.9%
Nome biblico, dall'ebraico ’ādām, "uomo; rosso di terra".
as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
forma italiana de Adamus
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Variante di Adami
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
- French6.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Adamo in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Adamo is found
(measured from records)Adamo 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | 7 | Adamo | 58 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Adamo | 24 |
| US United States | 3,647 | 1 in 91K | 3.6K | Adamo | 302 |
| AR Argentina | 1,191 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 827 | — | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 180 | 1 in 47K | 180 | Adamo | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 92 | 1 in 37K | 92 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Adamo | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Adamo 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.
Nato dalla terra
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Lithuanian, genitive singular of Ãdamas (“Adam”)
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)- Salvatore Adamob. 1943ITBelgian recording artist of Italian birth; musician, songwriter, singer
- Antonio Adamob. 1957ITfilm director
- Mark Adamob. 1962USAmerican composer and librettist (born 1962)
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)61 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Adamo?
- In the etymology graph, Adamu, Adamou and Akamu are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Adamo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of adamar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Adamo?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /aðamo/; in Italian /aˈda.mo/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Adamo?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Adamo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adamo. After it come Nigeria, United States, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Adamo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,647 people named Adamo in 2010, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Adamo?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adamoThe 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, “Adamo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.