Adir

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled אדיר in IL Israel, IQ Iraq, ET Ethiopia and Адир in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name 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◐

Adir is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French given name697 records spelled Adir4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Israel, United States, Belgium

  Also written Adîr, Aďìr

• a separate given name580 records spelled Adir2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Israel

  Also written Adîr

• Arabic given name249 records spelled Adir3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, Syria, United States, Morocco

  Also written Adiŕ

• Bangla given name112 records spelled Adir3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Bangladesh, United States

  Also written Ãdír, আদির

• Amharic given name111 records spelled Adir2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Israel, United States

  Also written አዲር

• Romanian surname102 records spelled Adir2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Israel

  Also written Adîr

43 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●

Adir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In dra-sou-pro, to shake

  as a word·StarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

• In Kurdish, alternative form of edro (“epilepsy”)

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

• In Catalan, only used in s'... adir, syntactic variant of adir-se, infinitive of adir-se

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

• In Spanish, to accept (inheritance)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 30 years between 1990–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Adir Cohenb. 1937ILIsraeli educator (born 1937)
• Adir Zikb. 1939ILIsraeli journalist (1939–2005)
• Adir Millerb. 1974ILactor, screenwriter, comedian
• Adir Sharabib. 1977ILassociation football 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adir?

We estimate roughly 10.0 thousand people bear Adir (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.

In which country does Adir have the most bearers?

Adir is most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is most often spelled אדיר.

How common is Adir compared with other names?

In Israel, Adir is the 516th most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.

Is Adir a male or female name?

Adir 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.