Adan
Masculine · Hebrew roots · “man”
Adan is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 31,478 boys against 146 girls since 1880.
Adan is the Spanish Adán with the accent set down — a four-letter form of one of the oldest continuously used names on earth. In the mouth it can go two ways: ah-DAHN, with the weight at the end, or the English AY-dan. It has been on American records for more than a century, quietly, without ever crowding a classroom.
How old is the name Adan?
Adan first appears in US birth records in 1904 — 121 years ago. The typical Adan alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 29,500 people named Adan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adan most popular?
Adan peaked in 2004, reaching #286 nationally. Today it ranks #482, 196 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adam (Hebrew) to Adan
The story of Adan
The name begins as Hebrew Adam, the first human in Genesis, whose name echoes adamah, the ground. It traveled through Greek and Latin translations of the Bible into every Christian language of Europe, and through the Quran, where Adam is the first prophet, into the Muslim world. Spanish shaped it into Adán, stressed on the second syllable, and Spanish-speaking families carried that form into the United States — which is why Adan is strongest today in California, Texas and Arizona. The unaccented spelling is what American paperwork made of it, and it has held that shape on the charts for over a hundred years.
Meaning
man, human — from Hebrew, tied to the word for earth or ground
The Hebrew adam means "man, human being" and plays on adamah, "ground, soil" — the wordplay is right there in the opening chapters of Genesis.
How the name formed
- AdamHebrew
- AdamGreek and Latin
- AdánSpanish
- Adan
Related forms: Adán · Adam · Ādam · Adão · Adamo · Adam
Pronouncing Adan
ah-DAHN
That is the Spanish stress, on the second syllable. In English-speaking settings many Adans answer to AY-dan, which sits close to the familiar Aiden. Both are in real use, so it is worth deciding early which one your family will say.
Nicknames for Adan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1904
- Most boys named
- 20091,126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #286reached in 2004
- Change vs 2023
- −2.8%625 in 2025, from 643
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adán in Spanish — spelling variant
- Adam in Hebrew — same name
- Ādam in Arabic — transliteration
- Adão in Portuguese — same name
- Adamo in Italian — same name
- Adam in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Arizona.
Adans among us
people named Adan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 2,733 born in 2025 was named Adan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jamaal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jamaal climbed just as high around 1982, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jamaal's path sketches the road Adan is walking now.
Adan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Adan is headed
Adan should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Adan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short, four letters, no silent letters — easy to write down the first time it is heard.
- Works in both Spanish and English without translation or adjustment, which matters in bilingual families.
- Belongs to one of the longest documented name lines in existence, shared by Jewish, Christian and Muslim tradition.
- Complete as it stands; it needs no nickname to be usable.
- Two pronunciations circulate — ah-DAHN and AY-dan — so a mild correction may become a lifelong habit. Some families choose the accented Adán on the birth certificate to steer it.
- The accent itself is a decision. Adán is the standard Spanish spelling, but American forms, databases and airline tickets tend to strip diacritics anyway.
- Aiden, Aidan and Ayden are all widely known, so expect the occasional misspelling in that direction from people who have only heard the name spoken.
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Masculine · Hebrew roots · #482 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Adans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 29,500 people named Adan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adan in 2025?
- Adan ranks #482 among US boy names in 2025, with 625 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adan?
- About 1 in every 2,733 US boys born in 2025 was named Adan — 625 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adan with classmates?
- Adan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Adan
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