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    The surname Adame

    A surname, carried by 16,193 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex A350

    Adame: #2,250 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Adame #2,250, 16,193 people Adame: #2,250 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Adame #2,250, 16,193 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Adame is more common than 98.6% of them.

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 16,193 people named Adame in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 19,067 Americans. That is up 37% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,848.

    #2,250
    rank among US surnames
    16,193
    people in 2010
    5.5
    per 100,000 Americans
    +36.7%
    change since 2000 (was #2,791)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #2,241Aaron16,27618,969
    #2,242Clinton16,26318,985
    #2,243Woodall16,26018,988
    #2,244Marcum16,24619,004
    #2,245Dowling16,23819,014
    #2,246Stoner16,20419,054
    #2,247Mattson16,20319,055

    Who is named Adame

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    93% of people named Adame identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 6.0% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 93%
    • White (not Hispanic) 6.0%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Two or more races 0.1%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Adame

    Adame has the Soundex code A350, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code A350.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Adame?
    16,193 people in the United States had the surname Adame in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 19,067 Americans. It ranked 2,250th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Adame?
    In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Adame identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 6.0% as white (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Adame getting more or less common?
    More common. 11,848 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 16,193 in 2010, up 37%.