Adonai
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: Adonai (one of the names of God)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adonai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adonai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 73K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 92K
- AOAngola≈1 in 80K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)
2,305 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Adonai (one of the names of God)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Adonai is read(measured from records)
Adonai is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish59%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Adonai in Spanish.
- Portuguese21%
Adonai (one of the names of God)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.1%
The Lord: a Hebrew title of God.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Hebrew title for God
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Adonai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2,305 | 1 in 92K | 2.4K | Adonai | 81 |
| US United States | — | 982 | 1 in 339K | 797 | Adonai | 93 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Adonai | 31 |
| ES Spain | — | 484 | 1 in 103K | 484 | Adonai | 36 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Adonai | 6 |
| SV El Salvador | #821 | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Adonai | 11 |
2,305 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
Adonai is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, first-person singular past historic of adonare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Dieva apzīmējums Vecajā Derībā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
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)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.4K | #5,386 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.3K | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.2K | #2,199 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,642 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 797 | #12,611 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 484 | #4,666 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 434 | #2,325 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 185 | #12,611 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 121 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 116 | #20,133 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 74 | #4,642 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Adonai mean, and where does it come from?
- Adonai (one of the names of God) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Adonai a male or female name?
- Adonai 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.
- How do you pronounce Adonai?
- A machine transcription gives /adonai/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Adonai have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Adonai, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adonai.
- How common is the name Adonai?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,305 people named Adonai in 2022, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.
- How common is Adonai compared with other names?
- In El Salvador, Adonai is the 821st most common given name of 28,124 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adonai?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adonaiThe 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, “Adonai” — the 821st most common given name in El Salvador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.