Adam

Adam carries one of the lowest ordinal values among commonly studied biblical names at 19, reducing to One — fitting, numerology writers often note, for the first human named in the text. The name is traditionally linked to the Hebrew word "adamah," meaning ground or earth, tying his name directly to the account of his being formed from soil rather than being a name chosen independently of the story. All three of its major cipher values (ordinal reduction, Pythagorean, and Chaldean) land on exactly 10, an overlap that's fairly rare among the names in this dictionary and one gematria writers sometimes read as reinforcing the "singular, original" theme already carried by its reduction to One.