Adam
Adam stands at #101 nationally in 2025, holding steady. First recorded 1880, best year 1984, 580,378 bearers across the whole run.
What Adam carries
Adam · Hebrew
“red earth”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Adam’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Adam, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Adam since 1880
Adam peaked in 1984 at #18; #101 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Adam is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Adam runs strongest in Michigan at 0.44% in 2025, then New York and Delaware.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Adam
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sarah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jordan
#131 in 2025 · Hebrew
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jesse
#184 in 2025 · Hebrew
Molly
#196 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sara
#198 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with A · Hebrew names · all names
About Adam
How common is Adam today?
Adam stands at #101 nationally in 2025, holding steady. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1880.
What does Adam mean?
The reference we cite records “red earth”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Adam?
The recipe puts Aaron first, then Sarah, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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