Äd
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Äd is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ottoman Turkish آد (ad, “name”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ad, “name”), from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”).
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 123K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 13K
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.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ad in EG Egypt, SA Saudi Arabia, AE United Arab Emirates and 3 more, Ãd in DZ Algeria, LY Libya and Àd in MA Morocco.
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)
- Ottoman Turkishآدad“name”(measured from records)
- Old Anatolian Turkish[script(measured from records)
- Proto-Turkic*āt“name”(measured from records)
From Ottoman Turkish آد (ad, “name”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ad, “name”), from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”).
Sources 3
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Äd 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | #594 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Ãd | 16 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Àd | 20 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Ad | 35 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Ad | 63 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Ad | 29 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Ad | 7 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Ad | 28 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Ãd | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 85 | 1 in 2.5M | 85 | Ad | 41 |
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 — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Äd 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 liv, second person singular present form of the negation verb
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Äd mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ottoman Turkish آد (ad, “name”), from Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (ad, “name”), from Proto-Turkic *āt (“name”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Äd have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Äd in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ãd.
- How common is the name Äd?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 85 people named Äd, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Äd compared with other names?
- In Algeria, Äd is the 594th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Äd?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%A4dThe 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, “Äd” — the 594th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.