Adonia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An annual festival celebrated by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/aðoɲja/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Adonia is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 240Kfew records
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An annual festival celebrated by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adonia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Adonia | 8 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Adonia | 3 |
| US United States | 425 | 1 in 783K | 358 | Adonia | 122 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Adonia | 12 |
| PE Peru | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 237K | — | Adonia | 15 |
| HN Honduras | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Adonia | 3 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 3 | — | 1 |
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; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Adonia 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 Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of adōnium
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine singular of adonio
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.
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 358 | #23,149 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 67 | #23,149 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2001 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Adonia mean, and where does it come from?
- An annual festival celebrated by women in ancient Greece to mourn the death of Adonis, the consort of Aphrodite. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Adonia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /aðoɲja/; in Indonesian /adonia/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Adonia a male or female name?
- Adonia is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Adonia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Adonia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adonia.
- How common is the name Adonia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 425 people named Adonia in 2020, about 1 in 783 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Adonia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adoniaThe 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, “Adonia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.