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Adam name meaning

“man; human”

Letters
4
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Origin
Hebrew · Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2010s: 3%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s3%
40

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Adam

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning lifeHebrew origin

Adam is a male name from Hebrew meaning 'man' or 'human'.

What does Adam mean?

Man; human

In Malay: manusia

#Life

Sources (1)

About the name Adam

Adam comes from the Hebrew word for 'man', possibly from a root meaning 'red' or linked to adamah 'earth'. It is the name of the first man and a prophet in Islam, with the Arabic form Ādam. According to JPN it peaked in the 2010s with 1,490 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginHebrew, Arabic
SyllablesA-dam
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptآدم

Adam in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
Boy: 1,490 · 3%
People registered with Adam as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Adam

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Adam · behindthename.com · meaning

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