Adab
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- AH-dab
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,301 for boys
- Style
- New arrival
Adab is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “good manners, refinement”. In 2025 it ranked 4,301st for boys in the UK (4 babies).
What does Adab mean?
Arabic
“good manners, refinement”
Adab is the Arabic idea of courtesy and refined conduct; the word also came to mean literature.
Is Adab a girl's or a boy's name?
Adab is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adab in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,301st among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 75,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 4 boys in the UK were named Adab, making it the 4,301st most popular name for boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,212th in England and Wales.
Adab in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,301 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
Names like Adab
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musab, Rabab, Ahmed, Awab, Abdur, Muhammad, Ahad, Abdullah, Azeem, Habib, Azaan, Nawab
More Arabic names
Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adab: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adab, updated 20 October 2026.