Adam
The Hebrew name behind it means simply "man, earth". Around 400,000 Polish men carry it, and it still sits near the top twenty, though fewer boys get it now than at its 2010s peak.
Adam Pronunciation
Adam is pronounced AH-dahm (/ˈadam/).
What Adam means
Where Adam comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adam comes from Hebrew, where the word adam meant man, a human being. It stood right beside adamah, the word for earth or ground, so the name held soil in it from the beginning. Man and earth, never far apart.
The best known Adam is the one in the Book of Genesis, formed from the ground and given breath. That story pushed the name across Jewish, Christian and Muslim tradition, and it reached Polish soil early, one of the oldest given names still in daily use here.
In Poland the name keeps its own date. Adam shares his imieniny with Ewa on 24 December, so on many a class register the name-day lands on Wigilia itself, the evening of the Christmas Eve supper. There is a feminine form too, Adamina, rare but real. The meaning underneath stays plain: man, and the earth he was named for.
When Adam celebrates name day
Adam appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 24 December.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Adam
1 in 53 men in Poland is named Adam. 401,378 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #20 among male names.
Adam's popularity over time
2,326 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #32 among newborns. It has been stable for a decade. Still the #20 name among living men, even as it slips to #32 among newborns.
Where Adam is most popular
Adam is most popular in Świętokrzyskie, 30% above the national average (809 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Opole (+19%) and Masovian (+17%). It is least common in Lubusz and West Pomeranian, 25% and 18% below average respectively.
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Świętokrzyskie809 boys born+30%
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Opole618 boys born+19%
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Masovian4,657 boys born+17%
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Lesser Poland2,953 boys born+16%
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Łódź1,522 boys born+7%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian1,219 boys born−1%
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Podlaskie721 boys born−3%
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Lublin1,095 boys born−5%
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Subcarpathian1,272 boys born−6%
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Greater Poland2,285 boys born−6%
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Silesian2,327 boys born−9%
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Lower Silesian1,570 boys born−11%
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Pomeranian1,377 boys born−17%
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Warmian-Masurian672 boys born−17%
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West Pomeranian782 boys born−18%
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Lubusz421 boys born−25%
Adam as a middle name
Adam is a first name for 401,378 men in Poland and a middle name for another 279,662, a 59/41 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 8th, between Krzysztof (330,379) and Tomasz (253,972).
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#6 Józef381,053
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#7 Krzysztof330,379
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#8 Adam279,662
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#9 Tomasz253,972
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#10 Marek248,808