Adem
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nonexistence, nothingness, void
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 38 countries · latest register: TÜİK NIP, 2025
/ad̪em/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Adem is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. In Türkiye it is the 48th most common given name.
- TRTürkiye1 in 405(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 460few records
- XKKosovo≈1 in 470
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Adem itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 405 (inferred from the name graph)
≈290,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nonexistence, nothingness, void
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adem 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #608 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 458 | — | Adem | 17 |
| TR Türkiye | #48 | 202,334 | 1 in 405 | 202K | Adem | 141 |
| DZ Algeria | #149 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Adem | 41 |
| TN Tunisia | #108 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 858 | — | Adem | 37 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Adem | 8 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 473 | 6.8K | — | 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: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)Adem 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.
In Portuguese, mallard (Anas platyrhynchos, a wild species of duck)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bew, cold (having a low temperature)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dum, breath
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, cold
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, œillet à saturer l’eau de marais salant
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Adem Kastratib. 1933ALNorth Macedonian painter (1933-2000)
- Adem Demaçib. 1936XKAlbanian politician (1936-2018)
- Adem Ilhanb. 1950GBBritish musician
- Adem Jasharib. 1955XKCommander of Kosovo Liberation Army
- Adem Bereketb. 1973TRTurkish wrestler (born 1973)
- Adem Büyükb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Ersan Gülümb. 1987AUnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1987)
- Adem Ljajićb. 1991RSSerbian footballer
- Adem Zorganeb. 2000DZAlgerian footballer
- Adem Arousb. 2004TNTunisian association football player (born 2004)
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)83 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — most used given names | 2025 | 202K | #20 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 6.8K | #21 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 14 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 4 | #21 |
Reference works 8
- 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
- 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
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
- 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 Adem mean, and where does it come from?
- nonexistence, nothingness, void Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Adem?
- In the etymology graph, Adam, Ádám and Adán are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Adem?
- In Turkish /ad̪em/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Adem a male or female name?
- Adem is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Türkiye (TÜİK NIP, 2025), France (INSEE, 2024), Kosovo (ASK Kosovo) and Albania (INSTAT Albania), among others.
- In which country does Adem have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 288 thousand people named Adem in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adem.
- Where is Adem most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adem is densest in Türkiye — about 1 in 405 people — even though Ethiopia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adem?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 202,334 people named Adem in 2025, about 1 in 405 residents.
- How common is Adem compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Adem is the 608th most common given name of 31,392 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adem?
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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, “Adem” — the 608th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.