Given name · also Latin
Ádam
“earth, man, soil, light brown”
Ádam is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Faroese.
Original LatinAdam
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ádam goes back to a word meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown.”
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Where it comes from
Ádam comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Faroese usage, Ádam developed from Adam. In Faroese usage, Ádam developed from Ἀδάμ.
Ádam’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Ádam developed from the Latin form Adam. In Bulgarian usage, Ádam is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Адам. In Faroese usage, Ádam has a conventional equivalent in the English form Adam.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Ádam has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Ádam comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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