Adie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the medieval Scottish male personal name Adie, a pet-form of Adam
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɑɗiɛ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Adie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 55Kfew records
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the medieval Scottish male personal name Adie, a pet-form of Adam
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Adie is found
(measured from records)Adie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Adie | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Adie | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 4 | Adie | 115 |
| KE Kenya | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Adie | 10 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 307 | Adie | 162 |
| AU Australia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 176K | 1 | Adie | 64 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Adie 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 English, A diminutive of the male given names Adam, Adrian, or Aidan, from Hebrew, Latin, or Irish.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Hebrew; an ornament of God.
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Pet form of Adrian or Adam.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Scottish: pet form of ADAM or, less commonly, of AIDAN . Adaidh is a Gaelic spelling of Adie , hence the surname Mac Adaidh , Anglicized as McCadie .
as a word
In sco, a diminutive of the male given name Aidam
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)- Lorraine Copelandb. 1921GBnot in their usual nameBritish archaeologist (1921–2013)
- Kate Adieb. 1945GBBritish journalist (born 1945)
- Ian Copelandb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican music promoter (1949–2006)
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adie mean, and where does it come from?
- from the medieval Scottish male personal name Adie, a pet-form of Adam Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Adie?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /ɑɗiɛ/; in Indonesian /ˈadi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Adie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Adie in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adie. After it come Malaysia, United Kingdom, Kenya and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Adie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 301 people named Adie in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Adie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adieThe 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, “Adie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.