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Adham

#3,582 in 2025Boys' name

Dark, black

Adham has been given to 942 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #3,582 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Adham, 2025

1 in 107,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adham: meaning, origin, and history

Dark, black

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adham means

Adham means “dark, black”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 942 boys were recorded with the name Adham between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 48 in 2014; its best national rank was #2,466 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,138 in 2020 to #3,582 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,295 in 2015 to #3,582 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.

How common is Adham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,582
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adham 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 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adhams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adham was born before 2009 — so the typical Adham is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
942
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.4% of all recorded uses (286).

Is Adham 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
+489
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+556
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+713
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.6%
Peak was 2014 (48)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,466
2002

Spellings of Adham

Adham is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 88.2% against Adham's 0.14%.

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 Adham is used

Across 1910–2025, Adham was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 251,685 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 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. Adham has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adham around the world

Where Adham 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
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • France
    1985–2025
    #3,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Adham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,582
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 556
Best rank ever
#2,466
2002
Peak year
2014
48 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
942
Count in 2025
31

Names similar to Adham

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

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Sibling names for Adham

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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