Given name
Adit
“of the sun”
In English use, Adit is a variant of Aditya. One Hindi interpretation is “of the sun.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Adit is a variant of Aditya. One Hindi interpretation is “of the sun.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Adit is a variant of Aditya. An origin associated with Aditya is Hindi.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In English usage, Adit is a diminutive of Aditya.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1989. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Adit through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 286
- 286 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 28 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 28 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 522 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Adit’s family of names
In English usage, Adit is a diminutive of Aditya. In Indonesian usage, Adit was borrowed from the Javanese form ꦄꦢꦶꦠꦾ. In English usage, Adit has a related form in Aditya.
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Around the world
Adit has relatives in 3 languages.
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Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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