Adham

given name · Latin script

Meaning: black

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adham is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 5K
  • UZUzbekistan≈1 in 5.5K

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.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈67,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
190 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Egypt, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AdhamLatin(measured from records)
АдхамCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Адхам in UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan.

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)

black

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adham 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.

Where Adham is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt#175≈67,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Adham155
UZ Uzbekistan#242≈5,600 est.≈1 in 5.5KlistedАдхам20
SY Syria#673≈3,900 est.≈1 in 5K—Adham31
SA Saudi Arabia—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 13K—Adham60
AE United Arab Emirates#845≈1,200 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Adham83
TJ Tajikistan#674≈1,200 est.≈1 in 7.6K—Адхам4
US United States—1,0711 in 311K1.1KAdham190

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adham is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Adḣam, Adḥam

  • Hindi given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Âdhâm, Ädhäm, Adĥam, Àdhàm

  • Danish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Âďĥâm, Ädhåm, Åḓhåm

  • Polish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Ádhåm, Aďĥãm, Ãdhâm

46 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Adham is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Albanian, diamond

    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)

1400160018002000Adham Khan, b. 1531Adham Khanjar, b. 1890Adham Wanly, b. 1908Edkhyam Tenishev, b. 1921Adham Sharara, b. 1953Adham Hadiya, b. 1985Adham Makhadmeh, b. 1987Avi Aburomi, b. 1996Adham Hatem Elgamal, b. 1998

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 63 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Adham
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020212#92,936
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010155#113,155
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000143#113,519

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • 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 Adham mean, and where does it come from?
black Recorded by African Muslim Names.
Is Adham a male or female name?
Adham is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Adham have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Adham in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adham.
How common is the name Adham?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,071 people named Adham in 2020, about 1 in 311 thousand residents.
How common is Adham compared with other names?
In Egypt, Adham is the 175th most common given name of 107,792 given names recorded there.

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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, “Adham” — the 175th most common given name in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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