Meaning and history
Ádám comes from the Hebrew word for "man" and may ultimately relate either to ʾaḏam, meaning "to be red," in reference to ruddy human skin, or to Akkadian adamu, meaning "to make." In Genesis, God creates Adam from the earth, reflected in a wordplay with Hebrew ʾaḏama, "earth." Adam and Eve live in the Garden of Eden until eating the forbidden fruit, after which they are expelled and become parents of the next generation, including Cain, Abel, and Seth. Adam has been a common English Christian name since the Middle Ages and gained further use after the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer was Scottish economist Adam Smith (1723-1790).
20062006: 6,806 births, rank #64
2007: 6,790 births, rank #65
2008: 6,098 births, rank #72
2009: 5,676 births, rank #74
2010: 5,111 births, rank #80
20112011: 5,215 births, rank #81
2012: 5,323 births, rank #82
2013: 5,251 births, rank #82
2014: 5,344 births, rank #79
2015: 5,404 births, rank #73
20162016: 5,224 births, rank #75
2017: 4,933 births, rank #77
2018: 4,711 births, rank #78
2019: 4,188 births, rank #91
2020: 3,781 births, rank #97
20212021: 3,657 births, rank #104
2022: 3,638 births, rank #99
2023: 3,487 births, rank #103
2024: 3,507 births, rank #100
20252025: 3,501 births, rank #101
Adam moved from #100 to #101 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1984, with 23,939 births.