as a Last Name
- 400,659
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Adams
Meaning & Origins
English (very common in England, especially in the south Midlands, and in Wales) and German (especially northwestern Germany): patronymic from the personal name Adam. In the U.S. this form has absorbed many patronymics and other derivatives of Adam in languages other than English. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)
| 35th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 400,659
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Adams per capita
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