Given name · also Latin
Adomas
“earth, man, soil, light brown”
Adomas is a masculine given name from Ecclesiastical Latin, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Adomas goes back to Hebrew אָדָם (adam), meaning “earth, man, soil, light brown.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Adomas comes from Ecclesiastical Latin, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ecclesiastical Latin Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἄδαμος, from Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2011. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Adomas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 6 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 6 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 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Adomas’s family of names
In Lithuanian usage, Adomas has a diminutive in Adaška. In Lithuanian usage, Adomas shares a linguistic root with the German form Adam. In Lithuanian usage, Adomas has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Adão.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Adomas has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
5 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Adomas
- Adomas VarnasLithuanian painter, photographer, collector, philanthropist and educator (1879-1979)
- Adomas GaldikasLithuanian artist (1893-1969)
- Adomas Katrietis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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