Adamo
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adamo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as first-person singular present indicative of adamar.
- USUnited States1 in 91K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 8.5K
- JMJamaica≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 people, est.
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
Sources 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(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 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 7 | Adamo | 58 |
| US United States | 3,647 | 1 in 91K | 3.6K | Adamo | 302 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Adamo | 24 |
| AR Argentina | 1,191 | 1 in 38K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| FR France | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 77K | 93 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 180 | 1 in 47K | 180 | Adamo | 12 |
| UY Uruguay | 92 | 1 in 37K | 92 | — | — |
| JM Jamaica | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | 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); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
- Max Adamob. 1837DEGerman painter (1837-1901)
- Frank Adamob. 1893USAmerican military physician
- Salvatore Adamob. 1943ITBelgian recording artist of Italian birth; musician, songwriter, singer
- Amelia Adamob. 1947SESwedish Editor-in-chief
- Giulia Adamob. 1949ITItalian politician and mayor
- Antonio Adamob. 1957ITfilm director
- Nicola Adamob. 1957ITItalian politician (1957)
- Mark Adamob. 1962USAmerican composer and librettist (born 1962)
- Christine Adamob. 1965FRFrench novelist
- Andrea Adamob. 1991ITItalian footballer
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)
Attested in 61 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #8,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,701 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,660 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 180 | #6,841 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 93 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 92 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- 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 Adamo mean, and where does it come from?
- first-person singular present indicative of adamar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- In which country does Adamo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named Adamo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adamo.
- 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?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adamoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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 2026-10-10.