Adamec

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Adamec.

Proper noun

Adamec (plural Adamecs)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Adamec is the 39352^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 559 individuals. Adamec is most common among White (93.92%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Adamec”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.

Czech

Etymology

From Adam +‎ -ec.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈadamɛt͡s]

Proper noun

Adamec m anim (female equivalent Adamcová)

1. a male surname

Declension

Declension of Adamec (soft masculine animate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	Adamec	Adamcové
genitive	Adamce	Adamců
dative	Adamcovi	Adamcům
accusative	Adamce	Adamce
vocative	Adamče	Adamcové
locative	Adamcovi	Adamcích
instrumental	Adamcem	Adamci

Related terms

• Adametz

 

Further reading

• “Adamec”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

German

Alternative forms

• Adametz

Etymology

From Czech Adamec

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadamɛt͡s/

Proper noun

Adamec m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Adamecs or (with an article) Adamec, feminine genitive Adamec, plural Adamecs)

1. a surname

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈadamet͡s]

Proper noun

Adamec m pers (female equivalent Adamcová)

1. a male surname

Further reading

• “Adamec”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024