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The boy's name Adam \a-

is pronounced AD-um. It is of Hebrew origin, and its meaning is "earth". From "adama". In Hebrew, it is a generic term for "man". Biblical: in the Genesis account, he was the first man created from the red earth of Eden. The name was borne by a seventh-century Irish abbot of Fermo in Italy. Steadily used from the middle ages until the 1700s, and again beginning in the 1970s. An appropriate name for the first boy in a family that has produced many girls. Adan (a-DAHM) is the Spanish form. Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; actor Adam Sandler.

Adam has 24 variant forms: Ad, Adamo, Adams, Adan, Adao, Addam, Addams, Addem, Addie, Addis, Addison, Addy, Ade, Adem, Adham, Adhamh, Adim, Adnet, Adnon, Adnot, Adom, Atim, Atkins and Edom.

For more information, see also related names Admon and Damek.

Baby names that sound like Adam are Wadham and Jotham.

Adam is a very common first name for men (#69 out of 1220) and also a very common last name for both men and women (#2706 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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