Adem
Adem was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,397 among boys’ names; 1,229 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,210 Americans named Adem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adem mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Adem is “a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Adam”
Alternative spelling of Âdem
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adem?
#4,397 among boys’ names, 2025
Adem fell from #2,527 in 2015 to #4,397 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 13.5 per million.
49 babies in 2015, the peak
Adem peaked in 2015, when 49 boys were given it, #2,527 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,397 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,874 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,006 | 24.0 |
| 2022 | 34 | #3,411 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 45 | #2,776 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 42 | #2,845 | 24.3 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,051 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 48 | #2,616 | 26.4 |
| 2017 | 46 | #2,673 | 24.9 |
| 2016 | 48 | #2,586 | 25.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,527 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 46 | #2,622 | 23.9 |
| 2013 | 37 | #2,997 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 39 | #2,954 | 20.6 |
| 2011 | 26 | #3,885 | 13.7 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,530 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,159 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,342 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,590 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,449 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 27 | #3,525 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,884 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 44 | #2,388 | 22.3 |
| 2002 | 21 | #3,908 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 29 | #3,058 | 14.9 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,534 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,936 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,196 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,820 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,672 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,278 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,450 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,765 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,564 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 14 | #4,000 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,053 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,013 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,446 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 18 | #2,777 | 9.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,531 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,457 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,502 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 13 | #3,282 | 7.2 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,474 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,404 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,557 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,586 | 4.3 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,427 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,056 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #4,909 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adem, and how old are they?
1,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,229 Americans ever recorded as Adem. The median Adem alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 1,555 people named Adem (12 women and girls, 1,543 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 994 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 40 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 173 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 454 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 538 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Adem born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | #1,416 | 3.2× |
Where Adem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adem is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 585,999 babies since 1880, Adem is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 3,579 babies (<1%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adem
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Adem and names like it
- Compare Adem and AdamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdem peaked in 2015.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adem since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Adem: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Adem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.