Adem

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ადემ in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Adem is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name88K records spelled Adem58 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Türkiye, Spain, Belgium

  Languages: French, Spanish, Catalan

  Also written Adém, Àdém, Adèm, Àdèm, Àdem

• German given name47K records spelled Adem38 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

  Languages: German, English, Western Frisian

  Also written A'Dem, Ädem, Adém, Ãdëm, Âdêm

• Amharic given name19K records spelled Adem9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, Türkiye, United States, Nigeria

  Also written አደም, Adam, Adame, Àdem, ዓደም

• Bulgarian given name17K records spelled Adem24 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Croatia

  Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian

  Also written Адем, Adêm, Adém, Àdém, Adęm

• Albanian given name7.6K records spelled Adem8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Türkiye

  Also written Âdëm, Ådëm, Àdëm, Ädëm, Ãdêm

• Swahili given name7.3K records spelled Adem6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Ethiopia, Algeria, United States

  Also written Ãďĕm, Àdem

• a separate given name4.9K records spelled Adem4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, Türkiye, United States

  Also written Âdem, Ädem, Ādem

• Chinese given name4.6K records spelled Adem3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

  Languages: Chinese, Burmese

  Also written A'Dem

• Danish given name3.8K records spelled Adem22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Türkiye, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian

  Also written Adëm, Âďęm, Ãdęm, Adém, Ãdêm

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.

Other recorded senses●

Adem 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 Portuguese, mallard (Anas platyrhynchos, a wild species of duck)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In bew, cold (having a low temperature)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In dum, breath

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Indonesian, cold

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Breton, œillet à saturer l’eau de marais salant

  as a word·Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 152 years between 1850–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Adem Kastratib. 1933ALNorth Macedonian painter (1933-2000)
• Adem Demaçib. 1936XKAlbanian politician (1936-2018)
• Adem Ilhanb. 1950GBBritish musician
• Adem Jasharib. 1955XKCommander of Kosovo Liberation Army
• Adem Bereketb. 1973TRTurkish wrestler (born 1973)
• Adem Büyükb. 1987TRTurkish association football player (born 1987)
• Ersan Gülümb. 1987AUnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1987)
• Adem Ljajićb. 1991RSSerbian footballer
• Adem Zorganeb. 2000DZAlgerian footballer
• Adem Arousb. 2004TNTunisian association football player (born 2004)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 669 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adem?

We estimate roughly 223 thousand people bear Adem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Adem have the most bearers?

We estimate about 202 thousand people bear Adem in Türkiye, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adem.

Where is Adem most common?

Adem is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 405 people carrying it.

How common is Adem compared with other names?

In Türkiye, Adem is the 43rd most common given name of 294,597 given names recorded there.

Is Adem a male or female name?

Adem is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Adem mean?

Recorded meaning: nonexistence, nothingness, void