Ade
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ade is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble'.
- IDIndonesia1 in 586◐
- NGNigeria1 in 18K
- MYMalaysia1 in 28K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈896 ●
- Sources
- 220 ●
- 1 in 175K ◐
across 10 countries
31K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #46 | 154,978 | 22K rec. | — | — | Ade | 220 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 3,979 | 3K rec. | — | — | Ade | 52 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,359 | 969 rec. | — | — | Ade | 31 |
| IN India | — | 790 | 535 rec. | — | 376 | Ade | 43 |
| SG Singapore | #703 | 688 | 433 rec. | — | — | Ade | 25 |
| US United States | — | 643 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 517K | 1.6K | Ade | 154 |
| PH Philippines | — | 598 | 470 rec. | — | — | Ade | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 458 | 359 rec. | — | — | Ade | 92 |
| IT Italy | — | 302 | 261 rec. | — | 1 | Ade | 17 |
| ES Spain | — | 241 | 251 rec. | — | 151 | Ade | 28 |
| BR Brazil | — | 140 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 140 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 55△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 186K | 55 | — | 9 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian165K73%
- English30K13%
- Spanish7.4K3%
- Hindi3.4K1%
- French2.3K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 165,244 | 73% |
| English | 30,140 | 13% |
| Spanish | 7,362 | 3% |
| Hindi | 3,384 | 1% |
| French | 2,339 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Ade is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Welsh, Apparently a hypocoristic Welsh form related to Adam; no dated citation on this page.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, pet-form of Adam; first attested Thomas Ade 1327 SRSx
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
Adws, B15,50, AS 1406 Adws Of. Occurrenceof'apAdy, Thomas ap Addey' in Oswestry neighbourhood suggests that surname Baddy derives from Ap Ady, although the surname of Thomas Baddy, 18th cent. hymnwriter has been stated to derive from some form of Madog. For Ap Ady, v. Cal Pat Rolls, Edward VI, vo!. iii, p.284, owner oflands around Oswestry, Trefonnen.
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, A surname transferred from the given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a male given name from Javanese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1919 | 6 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1973 | 6 |
| 1974 | 10 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1988 | 6 |
| 1989 | 7 |
| 1991 | 9 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1994 | 12 |
| 1995 | 6 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 15 |
| 2000 | 5 |
| 2001 | 8 |
| 2004 | 6 |
| 2005 | 8 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 7 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 8 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 17 |
| 2017 | 18 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 9 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 11 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 11 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 44 years between 1919–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ade Hamnettb. 1882GBEnglish footballer (1882-1956)
- Ade Chandrab. 1950IDbadminton player
- Ade Cokerb. 1954USNigerian-American soccer player
- Ade Mafeb. 1966GBBritish sprinter
- Adé Bantub. 1971DENigerian-German musician, producer and social activist
- Ade Akinbiyib. 1974GBassociation football player
- Ade Olufekob. 1980USTechnologist, designer and entrepreneur of Ijebu ancestry
- Ade Alleyne-Forteb. 1988TTSprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- Ade Yusufb. 1993IDIndonesian badminton player
- Ade Resky Dwicahyob. 1998IDAzerbaijani badminton player
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 69 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,746 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,152 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,311 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 643 | #12,848 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 376 | #11,389 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 348 | #102 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 311 | #12,848 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 151 | #20,456 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 151 | #20,385 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 140 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 104 | #35,600 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 97 | #32,586 |
Reference works 6
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ade?
- We estimate roughly 896 people bear Ade (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ade have the most bearers?
- Ade is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled ade.
- How common is Ade compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Ade is the 46th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
- Is Ade a male or female name?
- Ade is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Ade mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Ade, a pet-form of Adam, or from German/Frisian Ade, also a pet-form of Adam or of compound names beginning with adal 'noble'
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About this data
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ade” — the 46th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.