Adamou

surname · French · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adamou is a surname, most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is the 13th most common surname. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: variant of Adam.

rarermore common
  • CMCameroon1 in 1.4K◐
  • CICôte d’Ivoire1 in 17K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈253 ●

across 11 countries

Sources
118 ●

8.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 180K ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Adamou: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Adamou
  1. LatinAdam◐via Adam
  2. Ancient GreekἈδάμAdám◐via Adam
  3. Hebrewאָדָםʾāḏām“man, soil, light brown”◐via Adam

Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.

variant of Adam

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Adamou is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon#131,2542.7K rec.—1Adamou29
CI Côte d’Ivoire—1,135130 rec.—367Adamou8
GB United Kingdom—422317 rec.——Adamou65
AU Australia—213203 rec.——Adamou38
NE Niger#1208280 rec.—4Adamou26
US United States—1311.4K rec.1 in 2.5M218Adamou69
LY Libya#923111198 rec.——Adamou4
NG Nigeria—110204 rec.——Adamou12
DE Germany—83114 rec.——Adamou41
TG Togo#38877149 rec.—3Adamou14
GH Ghana—5084 rec.——Adamou5
CY Cyprus—4327 rec.——Adamou20

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French4.2K48%
  • English1.6K18%
  • Greek8009%
  • Arabic6027%
  • Welsh2893%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French4,21848%
English1,59218%
Greek8009%
Arabic6027%
Welsh2893%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adamou is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname952 records spelled Adamou3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Cyprus, United Kingdom, United States, Greece

    Also written Αδαμου, Αδάμου

  • Spanish surname242 records spelled Adamou4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, United Kingdom, Niger

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Adãmou

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Hima Adamou, b. 1936Assoumane Adamou, b. 1942Hristakis Adamou, b. 1945Adamos Adamou, b. 1950Nabil Adamou, b. 1975Evangelia Adamou, b. 1976Yaya Adamou, b. 1982Ivi Adamou, b. 1993Antonis Adamou, b. 2002Panayiotis Adamou, b. 2007

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 26 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Adamou
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CI Côte d’Ivoirenomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies—367#1,286
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020218#90,848
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010131#129,825
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—31#38,576
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—18#88,854
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198118—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202413#50,156
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199113—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#51,538
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197112—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20089#74,308
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#41,235

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adamou?
We estimate roughly 253 people bear Adamou (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Adamou have the most bearers?
Adamou is most frequently recorded in Cameroon, where it is most often spelled adamou.
How common is Adamou compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Adamou is the 13th most common surname of 25,344 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Adamou mean?
Recorded meaning: variant of Adam
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adamou” — the 13th most common surname in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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