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Adamo

Boys' name

Earth, man, soil, light brown

Adamo has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1983, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Adamo, 2020

1 in 668,000

Adamo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adamo: meaning, origin, and history

Earth, man, soil, light brown

Hebrew

What Adamo means

Adamo means “earth, man, soil, light brown”, associated with adam.

Origin, language, and formation

Adamo is used in Esperanto and Italian. Its origins include Hebrew.

Adamo comes through Biblical Hebrew אָדָם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adam.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Esperanto, Adamo is pronounced /aˈdamo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Adamo between 1983 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1983; its best national rank was #5,485 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adamo?

Adamo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adamo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adamo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adamos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adamo was born before 2000 — so the typical Adamo is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Adamo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1983 (6)
Years since peak
42
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,485
1983

Spellings of Adamo

Adamo is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 83.5% against Adamo's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Adamo around the world

Where Adamo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2008
    #4,432
    in 2008
  • France
    1926–2024
    #3,880
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,614
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adamo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,485
1983
Peak year
1983
6 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adamo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AdaliAdariAdagioAdammAdahyAdahirAdarylAdarAdavionAdarienAdasonAdaeAdanisAdamasAndamoAdaliusAdamaAdarionRamoKaramoTiamoAdaelAdaryllAdaiah

Sibling names for Adamo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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