Adnan

See also: adnan

English

Etymology

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

Proper noun

Adnan (plural Adnans)

1. A male given name from Arabic.
2. A surname from Arabic.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Adnan is the 40745^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 536 individuals. Adnan is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (73.69%) and White (16.79%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Adnan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.

Anagrams

• Anand, Danna, Nanda, danna

Albanian

Etymology

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

Proper noun

Adnan m

1. a male given name

References

• Dražić, Marina, Antić, Ivana, editors (2019), Каталог најчешћих албанских имена и презимена‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), page 7

Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

Proper noun

Adnan

1. a male given name from Arabic

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

Proper noun

Adnan m (Cyrillic spelling Аднан)

1. (Bosnia, Montenegro) a male given name

Further reading

• “Adnan”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عدنان (Adnan), from Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

Proper noun

Adnan

1. a male given name from Arabic

References

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “عدنان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1289