Adan is Adam in Spanish, the first man reimagined with a softer second syllable. Both trace to the Hebrew adamah, "earth" or "red clay," that ancient image of humanity shaped from soil. In Spanish-speaking households the name has been steady for generations, carried by footballers, poets, and countless grandfathers. In the United States it has climbed quietly alongside the Latino baby boom, ranked 495 and holding. Two syllables, one clean stress, no ornament. Adan offers the gravity of a biblical original with a rolling, warm-blooded accent and the understated confidence of a name that needs no translation.
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1880 to today
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Sibling name ideas
- Atreus
- Ronin
- Leandro
- Rocco
- Collin
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- Ronin
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- Rocco
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