Adelman

At the 2020 census, 3,823 Americans bore the surname Adelman — 8,294th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 78,200.

By the numbers

People: 3,823
Rank: 8,294th
How common: 1 in 78,200
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adelman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Adelman

Rick Adelman (1946–2026)American basketball player and coach
Irma Adelman (1930–2017)American economist

People named Adelman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Adelman

Aden

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.