Adas
loc · Latin script
Meaning: subst. < ung. add s dare"
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Adas is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 144K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 268K
- NONorway1 in 456K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 144K (inferred from the name graph)
≈420 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Adaś in US United States, GB United Kingdom and Adaş in DE Germany, AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)subst. < ung. add s dare". 1. Adas, zis si Adis, Vlad, 1945 (Dm ; tef) ; Adasent s. Cf. si blg. adas tiz, omonim". Adimire.ti v. Vlad I 4 si Aldea II 1.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 506K | 76 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 282 | 1 in 1.2M | 313 | Adaś | 152 |
| PL Poland | 265 | 1 in 144K | 137 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Adaş | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 4 | Adaś | 46 |
| SE Sweden | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | — | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 552K | — | Adaş | 6 |
| NO Norway | 12 | 1 in 456K | 212 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Adas 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 zlm, fennel. Also (specifically) _adas pedas_ or 'peppery _adas_' in contrast to _adas manis_ ... 'sweet _adas_' or aniseed
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Indonesian, kind of hemp, Cannabis sativa; a substance such as marijuana, hashish, etc., made from the leaves and flowers of this plant
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In ljp, plant whose seed is used to produce an oil: Foeniculum vulgare
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Cebuano, the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat (Styloctenium mindorensis)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ban, mint, a sort of herb used in medicine and cooking
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michael Adasb. 1943USAmerican historian (born 1943)
- Adas Jakubauskasb. 1964LTLithuanian journalist
- Adas Juškevičiusb. 1989LTLithuanian basketball player (born 1989)
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 421 | #19,856 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 313 | #67,846 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 282 | #69,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 217 | #81,100 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #15,575 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #72,509 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #81,483 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,667 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Adas come from?
- subst. < ung. add s dare". 1. Adas, zis si Adis, Vlad, 1945 (Dm ; tef) ; Adasent s. Cf. si blg. adas tiz, omonim". Adimire.ti v. Vlad I 4 si Aldea II 1. Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- What does the name Adas mean?
- Recorded meaning: subst. < ung. add s dare".
- In which country does Adas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 419 people named Adas in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Adas most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adas is densest in Poland — about 1 in 144 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 282 people named Adas in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Adas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Adas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.