The ADAM surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	12,209	2704	0.005	45
United States (1880 census)	3,832	1600	0.008	77
Change since 1880	+8377	-1104	-0.003	-32
Other Countries
Australia	1,658	982	0.01	101
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for ADAM by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,304	2530	0.004	38
Texas	807	2994	0.004	39
Pennsylvania	795	1963	0.006	65
Florida	768	2806	0.005	48
New York	734	2729	0.004	39
Top States for ADAM by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	141	534	0.022	220
South Dakota	101	895	0.013	134
Iowa	339	1048	0.012	116
Delaware	84	1768	0.011	107
Nebraska	176	1159	0.010	103

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ADAM live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ADAM represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ADAM in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ADAM by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ADAM

Region of origin: Middle East

Religious origin: Muslim

Ethnic distribution of ADAM in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	545	4.46
Mixed Race	363	2.97
Asian/Pacific	317	2.6
Native American/Alaskan	52	0.43
White (Caucasian)	9,632	78.89
Black/African American	1,300	10.65

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ADAM surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ADAM

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ADAM.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.