Ador

surname · English · Latin script

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

Ador is a surname, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a time period allotted for watering crops.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 46K◐
  • OMOman1 in 140K
  • HRCroatia1 in 223K

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

≈223 ●

across 6 countries

Sources
45 ●

7.4K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 223K ◐

Croatia

Meaning & origin●

a time period allotted for watering crops

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ador is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines5,0676.1K rec.——Ador40
US United States160375 rec.—114Ador45
BR Brazil145△23 rec.1 in 1.5M145Ador15
ID Indonesia93138 rec.——Ador8
NG Nigeria90166 rec.——Ador9
MX Mexico6266 rec.——Ador13
MY Malaysia4417 rec.——Ador9
KE Kenya3019 rec.——Ador5
SY Syria2336 rec.——Ador3
FR France22—1 in 3.1M22——
EG Egypt2213 rec.——Ador7
SA Saudi Arabia2220 rec.——Ador8

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

Languages●

  • English3.1K27%
  • Spanish3.1K27%
  • Swahili1.2K11%
  • French1K9%
  • Portuguese9669%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,08027%
Spanish3,05827%
Swahili1,19611%
French1,0099%
Portuguese9669%

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◐

Ador is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4.9K records spelled Ador5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Nigeria, Australia

    Also written Ådōr, Ādor

  • Bangla surname1.2K records spelled Ador23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh, India, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Odia

    Also written AdaR, আদর, Adro, Aadur, Aador

  • Croatian surname148 records spelled Ador7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Philippines, Serbia

    Also written Адор, Ádor

36 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●

Ador is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, a kind of hulled wheat of the genus Triticum: emmer, farro, or spelt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romanian, first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of adora

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Cebuano, a diminutive of the male given names Dominador or Salvador

    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●

02550751002010201520202025

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Ador in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 2006–2025
Yearrecords
20062
20071
20082
20092
20101
20111
20121
20136
20144
20153
20169
20171
20187
20197
20209
202132
202267
202364
202480
2025100

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 20 years between 2006–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Jean Pierre Ador, b. 1724Gustave Ador, b. 1845Galo Ador, Jr., b. 1969
  • Jean Pierre Adorb. 1724CHSwiss goldsmith, worked in St. Petersburg for the Russian court (1724-1784)
  • Gustave Adorb. 1845CHmember of the Swiss Federal Council and president of the ICRC (1845-1928)
  • Galo Ador, Jr.b. 1969PHFilipino writer

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 31 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Ador
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—336#1,517
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—145#47,678
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—124#2,460
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020114#46,856
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2025100—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202480—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202267—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202364—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202132—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—30#19,116
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202027#46,856
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196127—

Reference works 1

  • 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 · 76 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ador?
We estimate roughly 223 people bear Ador (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Ador have the most bearers?
Ador is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled ador.
What does the name Ador mean?
Recorded meaning: a time period allotted for watering crops
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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, “Ador”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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