Adair

Where Adair comes from

The dictionaries list Adair as a given name — a male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Scottish Gaelic
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,651 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2007
    Peak, #1,562
    100 babies named Adair — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,594.
  4. 2015
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, of Scottish usage, equivalent to English Edgar.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Adair hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.