first name
ADAM
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 496,300 people named Adam, 80.9% reported their origin as White, 10.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.5% as two or more races. Virtually all are male (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Adam peaked in 1984, when 24,081 babies got the name.
At least 582,453 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Adam by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #31. The largest share of babies named Adam, 44.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Adam is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Adam has been most common in New Hampshire (1.8×), Vermont (1.5×), and Alaska (1.5×), and least common in Mississippi (0.45×).
575,461 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
Either side of Adam
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Adam, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Adam ranks #2,298 of 156,621, with 15,473 people. See Adam as a last name
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