![]() South Africa ranks Adam as 787 th with 8,776 people. New Zealand ranks Adam as 739 th with 977 people. Australia ranks Adam as 854 th with 4,629 people. France ranks Adam as 111 st with 25,815 people. And in Quebec, Canada, the name Adam is the 570 th popular surname. ![]() ![]() However, in Canada, the name Adam is ranked the 654 th most popular surname with an estimated 7,919 people with that name. In the United States, the name Adam is the 2,706 th most popular surname with an estimated 12,435 people with that name. Early Notables of the Adam family (pre 1700)Īnother 36 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Adam Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. Roy Devereux, great-grandson of the roadbuilder, in a letter to the press says: 'During my researches for the biography of my ancestor which I am now writing I have found no evidence whatever in support of the tradition that the McAdams are descended from the McGregors.'" In fact, "The Macadams of Waterhead, Ayrshire, of whom John Loudon Macadam the famous road-builder was a member, claim to be descended from a Macgregor of the first half of the sixteenth century who fled to Ayrshire. However, our research has shown the family existed far before Adam Macgregror as we shall soon show. century, from Macgregor to Macadam, in consequence of political troubles." Īnother source agrees with the postulation: "The family are descended from Adam Macgregor, grandson of Gregor Macgregor, chief of the clan Gregor." Ayr, claim descent from the head of the Clan Macgregor but the name was changed, early in the XVI. The name is derived from the given name Adam, which is itself derived from the Latin name Adamus which means earth. In ancient Scotland, the ancestors of the first people to use the name Adam were part of a tribe known as the Strathclyde Britons. The first recording of the family name anywhere in the world is believed to be that to be that of German Adam, and dated 1273, in the "Hundred Rolls" of the county of Cambridgeshire, England, during the reign of King Edward 1st, 1273 - 1307.Family Crest Download (JPG) Heritage Series - 600 DPI $14.50$10.15 An example is Jean Adam, a witness at the French Huguenot Church, Threadneedle Street, London, on February 14th 1731. Some bearers of the surname in Britain descend from French Huguenot refugees who fled religious persecution in their own country. Surnames derived from given names are the oldest and most pervasive surname type, and in religious naming traditions, names were bestowed in honour of saints and biblical figures. Other very early recordings include Adam, the sub-prior of Melrose Abbey, Scotland, who became abbot of Cupar, Fifeshire, in 1189, whilst Alianor Adam, was recorded in the 1281 Assize Rolls of the English county of Cheshire. The baptismal name was always popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages amongst the non- Jews, and is first recorded in England in the famous Domesday Book of 1086. These include such forms as Adami, Adamo, Adamsson, Adamsen, Dami, Adamski, Adamsky, Adnett, Adekins, Ade, Aitken, Aitkin, Atcock, Adamini, Adanet, Adamik, Adamcek, Adamcyzk, Adamec, Acheson, Adamovic, Hadkins, McAddie, Keddie, Kiddy, and many others. It is recorded in over seventy spellings. The surname can be English, Scottish, Irish, Polish, French, Catalan, Greek, Italian, German, Flemish, Dutch, Russian, Croatian, Hungarian, and was also given to 18th century Jews. It derives from the Hebrew word "adama", meaning "earth", and as such is believed to the source from which God created man as recorded in the Old Testament section of the Bible. This noble and distinguished surname is of pre-medieval origins.
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