Given name · also Old Galician-Portuguese
Adão
“earth, man, soil, light brown”
Adão is a masculine given name from Old Galician-Portuguese, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Portuguese.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Adão goes back to Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam), meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown.”
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Where it comes from
Adão comes from Old Galician-Portuguese, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Portuguese usage, Adão developed from Ἀδάμ.
Adão’s family of names
Adão developed from Adam. In Portuguese usage, Adão has a conventional equivalent in the Walloon form Adan. In Portuguese usage, Adão has a conventional equivalent in the English form Adam.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Adão has relatives in 24 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
21 related names in 24 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Adão
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