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Adem

#4,397 in 2025Boys' name

Man, person, through آدم

Adem has been given to 1,229 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #4,397 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 49 recorded.

Babies named Adem, 2025

1 in 144,000

Adem over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adem: meaning, origin, and history

Man, person, through آدم

Arabic

What Adem means

Adem belongs to the name family reached through Adem → آدم → آدم → آدَم. Its meaning is “man, person”.

Origin, language, and formation

Adem is used in Albanian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Adem comes through Ottoman Turkish آدم.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adam, Âdem, آدم and آدَم.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Albanian, Adem is pronounced /aˈdem/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,229 boys were recorded with the name Adem between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 49 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,388 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,845 in 2020 to #4,397 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,527 in 2015 to #4,397 in 2025.

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 Adem?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,397
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adem 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 2025 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adem. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adems were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adem was born before 2010 — so the typical Adem is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
74.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,229
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (408).

Is Adem 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
−1,523
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,552
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,870
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.47×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.9%
Peak was 2015 (49)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,388
2003

Spellings of Adem

Adem is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 28.5% against Adem's 0.06%.

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.

Where Adem is used

Across 1910–2025, Adem was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 159,395 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Missouri1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adem has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adem around the world

Where Adem 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
    1996–2025
    #1,307
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2003–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2011–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    1972–2025
    #109
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #391
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,037
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Adem by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,397
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,552
Best rank ever
#2,388
2003
Peak year
2015
49 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,229
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Adem

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

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Sibling names for Adem

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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