MEANING & HISTORY
What does Adnan mean?
Adnan comes from Arabic Adnan, associated with settling or remaining in a place. It is also a traditional ancestral name in Arabic genealogy.
The lexical root supplies the concise meaning; paradise is a wider association through related Arabic vocabulary rather than the exact name’s sole literal definition. The name does not establish a present-day person’s lineage.
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Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
EnglishEtymology & source
Borrowed from Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).
A male given name from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Source accounts remain in their original English; editorial summaries and filters are adapted. Attribution and downloads
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Adnan in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Adnan
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Adan♂Unaccented form of Adán or Adam; man
- Adán♂Man or humankind, linked with earth in Genesis
- Arnan·Biblical Hebrew personal name in David’s genealogy
- Ada♀Germanic noble-name short form; also Hebrew Adah
- Adam♂Man or human being in Hebrew
- Adlai·Biblical Hebrew name, compared with Adalia
- Adlaw·Sun; day
- Adrian♂♀From Hadria
What rhymes with Adnan?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Names with a similar written ending
Spelling suggestions; these are not verified phonetic rhymes.
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Adnan (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Adnan (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.