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The boy's name Adam \a-dam\ 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 popular male first name and a very popular surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Displayed below is the baby name popularity trend for the boy's name Adam. Click here to compare Adam with related baby names.

United States Top 1000 rankings for: Adam
Canada (BC), England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Australia (NSW) Top 100 rankings for: Adam

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