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Adam: what the name means

Adam: from the first name Adam.

In January 2017, 4,728 people in Czechia were named Adam or Adamová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

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Questions

What does the surname Adam mean?

Adam: from the first name Adam.

How many people are called Adam in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 4,728 people in Czechia were named Adam or Adamová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Adam most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (657), Kladno (178), Brno (172).

Sources

  1. The meaning of Adam: v4surnames.elte.hu
  2. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)