This surname ADDS is of the baptismal group of surnames meaning 'the son of Adam'. A popular font name in Edinbugh and Aberdeenshire in the 17th century. After the Crusades in Europe a need was felt for an added name to the one that had been given at birth. This was recognized by the nobility, as it added prestige to their status. Early records of the name mention William Ade who rendered homage in Scotland in the year 1296. Andreas Ade is recorded in Edinburgh in 1357, and Donald Ade was a presbyter in the diocese of Dunblane in 1465. Payment was made in 1606 'for horss to hyir' to David Aidye who appears as a member of the council of Aberdeen in 1624. James Adie sat in Parliament for Perth in 1596. William Aidy was one of the regents of Marischal College in 1644. Alba, the country which became Scotland, was once shared by four races; the Picts who controlled most of the land north of the Central Belt; the Britons, who had their capital at Dumbarton and held sway over the south west, including modern Cumbria; the Angles, who were Germanic in origin and annexed much of the Eastern Borders in the seventh century, and the Scots. The latter came to Alba from the north of Ireland late in the 5th century to establish a colony in present day Argyll, which they named Dalriada, after their homeland. The Latin name SCOTTI simply means a Gaelic speaker. Aedie of Moneaght are an old family of Aberdeen burgesses, and there were also Adies of Newark in Aberdeenshire. George Cardno Adie from New Byth served in the first Great War. The associated arms are recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name.