Adnan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adnan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Arabic, recorded as "A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of T.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 506(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 525
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K
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 Adnan 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 506 (inferred from the name graph)
≈460,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
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)
"A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Adnan is read(measured from records)
Adnan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 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.
- Turkish52%
Bir yere yerleşip ikamet eden, mukim.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Arabic13%
"A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60)
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Urdu10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Adnan in Urdu.
- English6.7%
Arabic; meaning unclear in OCR
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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)
Adnan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #644 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 506 | — | Adnan | 63 |
| TR Türkiye | #202 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Adnan | 126 |
| ID Indonesia | #958 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Adnan | 142 |
| SY Syria | #277 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 525 | — | Adnan | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | #393 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Adnan | 85 |
| US United States | — | 6,276 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Adnan | 157 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 603 | 3.6K | — | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 1,595as Аднан | 1 in 1.3K | 1.6K | — | 7 |
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; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Adnan 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 Swedish, Adnan är ett arabiskt namn innehållande ett ord med betydelsen ’hemvist’. Adnan var enligt traditionen son till Ismael (→ Ismail) och stamfader till nordarabiska folkgrupper.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Adnan Adıvarb. 1882TRTurkish physician and statesperson (1882–1955)
- Adnan Menderesb. 1899TRTurkish statesperson (1899–1961)
- Ahmet Adnan Saygunb. 1907TRTurkish composer (1907–1991)
- Adnan Khashoggib. 1935SASaudi Arabian businessman (1935-2017)
- Adnan Badranb. 1935JOJordanian academic and former prime minister
- Adnan Oktarb. 1956TRTurkish cult leader (born 1956)
- Adnan Al-Talyanib. 1964AEEmirati association football player
- Adnan Maralb. 1968TRTurkish-German actor (born 1968)
- Adnan Samib. 1971INIndian musician
- Adnan Januzajb. 1995BEBelgian association football player (born 1995)
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 95 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 536 | #40,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 196 | #88,083 |
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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Adnan mean, and where does it come from?
- "A descendent of Ismail and traditional ancestor of the North Arabian tribes...who called themselves ‘the sons of ‘Adnan’."'© He was "renowned for his eloquence."'’ Adnan Menderis: Prime Minister of T… Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- Is Adnan a male or female name?
- Adnan 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 Adnan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 461 thousand people named Adnan in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adnan.
- How common is the name Adnan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,276 people named Adnan in 2020, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Adnan compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Adnan is the 644th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adnan?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adnanThe 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, “Adnan” — the 644th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.