Adums Surname

3,543,123rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 31 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Nigeria

Adums Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Adums Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria281:6,326,527151,186
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
England11:55,718,059489,080
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States21:25,109,342694,541

Adums Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Adums Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Adums is held by more people in Nigeria than any other country or territory. It may also be found as a variant:. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Adums? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,543,123rd most commonly held surname worldwide, held by approximately 1 in 235,082,126 people. The surname Adums is primarily found in Africa, where 90 percent of Adums are found; 90 percent are found in West Africa and 90 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa.

This last name is most frequent in Nigeria, where it is carried by 28 people, or 1 in 6,326,527. In Nigeria Adums is mostly found in: Rivers, where 75 percent are found, Abia, where 11 percent are found and Oyo, where 11 percent are found. Besides Nigeria this last name is found in 3 countries. It is also common in China, where 3 percent are found and England, where 3 percent are found.

Adums Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Adums has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the surname fell 50 percent between 1880 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Addums918/
Adumse911/
Odums80576/
Adoms80113/
Adims8046/
Edums805/
Aduns804/
Adunse73170/
Addoms7358/
Eaduns732/
Adoems732/
Gaduns731/
Adooms731/
Eadoms731/
Adunnse6741/
Adunshe6710/
Adaunse672/
Adounse671/
Audiems670/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Adums
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