The Adan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,564 people carried this name — #9,155 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 82,600 people counted. That is up 42% from 2,517 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 772 people named Adan live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
129 people named Adan live in Switzerland.
They live in 13 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 65 people named Adan.
17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Aude.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 53 people named Adan live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
1,535 people named Adan are counted in Sweden, Norway and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Adan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Louis Adan 1839–1937 · painter -
Edna Adan Ismail 1937– · politician -
Johannes Baptiste Adan 1760–1824 · surveyor
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Henri Adan 1802–1891 · civil servant
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Henri Adan 1830–1901 · jurist
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Émilie Guillaumot-Adan 1855–1929 · painter
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Adan.
- Adamiak 346 · U.S. census
- Adamkiewicz 253 · U.S. census
- Adamo 3,647 · U.S. census
- Adams 427,865 · U.S. census
- Adamski 3,566 · U.S. census
- Adamy 287 · U.S. census
- Addi 201 · U.S. census
- Ade 1,418 · U.S. census
- Adel 571 · U.S. census
- Adell 667 · U.S. census
- Aden 4,705 · U.S. census
- Ader 1,357 · U.S. census
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