Adie

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from the medieval Scottish male personal name Adie, a pet-form of Adam

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ædi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Adie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1M

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.

Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)

≈21,000 people, est.

Sources
162 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from the medieval Scottish male personal name Adie, a pet-form of Adam

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(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.

Where Adie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria≈21,000 est.≈1 in 10K—Adie53
MY Malaysia≈660 est.≈1 in 49K—Adie26
GB United Kingdom≈530 est.≈1 in 125K4Adie115
KE Kenya≈310 est.≈1 in 173K—Adie10
US United States3011 in 1.1M307Adie162
AU Australia≈140 est.≈1 in 183K1Adie64

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Adi'E

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States

    Also written Adié, Adiè, Adįé

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

    Also written Ädïë

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Adié

51 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)

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)

17501800185019001950Alexander Adie, b. 1775Alexander James Adie, b. 1808Patrick Adie, b. 1821Alexander Adie, b. 1861Edith Helena Adie, b. 1865William John Adie, b. 1886Helen Adie, b. 1909Lorraine Copeland, b. 1921Kate Adie, b. 1945Ian Copeland, b. 1949

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)

FormalDear Adie,
InformalHi Adie,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Adie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020307#69,002
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000305#61,544
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010301#65,782
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • 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 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?
A machine transcription gives /ædi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Adie have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Adie in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adie.
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.

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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, “Adie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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