Find out how popular the last name Adamovich is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Adamovich.

Adamovich, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Adamovich surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Adamovich in America

Adamovich is the 58735th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Adamovich surname appeared 345 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Adamovich.

We can also compare 2010 data for Adamovich to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Adamovich

The surname ADAMOVICH has its origins in the Slavic regions of Eastern Europe, particularly in the areas that are now parts of Belarus, Ukraine, and western Russia. The name can be traced back to the early medieval period, around the 12th or 13th century.

ADAMOVICH is a patronymic surname, derived from the personal name Adam, which itself is derived from the Hebrew name "Adam" meaning "man" or "earth." The suffix "-ovich" is a Slavic patronymic ending, indicating "son of." Thus, ADAMOVICH literally means "son of Adam."

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname ADAMOVICH can be found in the Metryka Litewska, a collection of official documents from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dating back to the 15th century. In these records, various individuals with the surname ADAMOVICH are mentioned, suggesting that the name was already well-established in the region at that time.

Throughout the centuries, the ADAMOVICH surname has been associated with numerous notable individuals. One of the earliest recorded figures was Fyodor Adamovich, a Russian nobleman and military commander who lived in the 16th century. He played a significant role in the Livonian War against the Swedish Empire.

In the 19th century, Aleksey Adamovich (1820-1892) was a prominent Russian writer and literary critic, known for his contributions to the development of Russian realism in literature. Another notable figure from this period was Mikhail Adamovich (1836-1916), a Russian general who served in the Russo-Turkish War and the Russo-Japanese War.

Moving into the 20th century, Georgy Adamovich (1892-1972) was a highly influential Russian poet and literary critic who emigrated to France after the Russian Revolution. He was a leading figure in the literary movement known as the "Paris note."

One of the most famous individuals with the surname ADAMOVICH was Ales Adamovich (1927-1994), a Belarusian writer and journalist. He is best known for his works that documented the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, including the book "Chernobyl Prayer" (co-authored with Yuri Shcherbak and Vladimir Gubarev).

It is worth noting that the surname ADAMOVICH has also been associated with various place names throughout Eastern Europe, such as the village of Adamovichi in Belarus, and the town of Adamówka in Poland, which may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation of the surname in different regions.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Adamovich

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Adamovich.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Adamovich was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Adamovich has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Adamovich was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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