Adama
Adama reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 5,097, and has been recorded 1,108 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,554th. About 1,100 Adamas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 15.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Adama boys named Adama
Girls and boys called Adama
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 659 girls and 449 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 22 to 18.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 25 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,108
- Estimated living today
- 1,100
- Median age today
- 15
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 5,097th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,554th
- First recorded
- 1973
- Girls / boys
- 659 / 449
How old the living Adamas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,108 babies given the name since 1973, about 1,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 610 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2010 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Adamas
- Adama Barrow (born 1965)3rd President of the Gambia
- Adama Traoré (born 1996)Spanish association football player
- Adama Traoré (born 1995)Malian footballer (born 28 June 1995)
- Adama Guira (born 1988)Burkinabé footballer
- Adama Tamboura (born 1985)Malian footballer
- Adama Mbengue (born 1993)Senegalese footballer
- Adama Coulibaly (born 1980)Malian footballer
- Adama Traoré (born 1990)Ivoirian-Australian footballer
People named Adama with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adama is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adama is most concentrated in New York (11.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Adama peaked:
Adama elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Adama | 3,110 | 356th |
| France girls | Adama | 1,240 | 677th |
| England and Wales girls | Adama | 169 | 2,095th |
| Belgium girls | Adama | 98 | 714th |
| England and Wales boys | Adama | 31 | 2,734th |
| Belgium boys | Adama | 11 | 1,246th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adama: rank by region
In 2023, Adama was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Adama | 484 | 5 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Adama appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (271st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Adama among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Adama | 14 | 21 |
| Finland boys | Adama | 7 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Adama lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,192 men called Adama and 554 women called Adama were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Adama | 151 | 0.641 | 200 |
| Almería | Adama | 247 | 0.628 | 193 |
| Huesca | Adama | 69 | 0.589 | 179 |
| Girona | Adama | 175 | 0.420 | 264 |
| Huelva | Adama | 101 | 0.378 | 256 |
| Albacete | Adama | 46 | 0.235 | 340 |
Listed in 44 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 8 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Adama | 47 | 0.211 | 471 |
| Girona | Adama | 56 | 0.135 | 638 |
| Almería | Adama | 31 | 0.082 | 913 |
| Palmas, Las | Adama | 36 | 0.061 | 1,481 |
| Tarragona | Adama | 19 | 0.043 | 1,433 |
| Zaragoza | Adama | 21 | 0.041 | 1,254 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Adama against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.