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This brings in an interesting question of who actually did the naming.

Gen. 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, “For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.” 26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh.[c] Then men began to call on the name of the LORD.

Gen. 5:3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

It could very well be that because in a marriage the two are viewed as one, so that the wife may do most of the naming but the husband when speaking represented the two of them when it was said “he named”. So even if the two of them named together, either could say “I named”. Interesting.

Interesting also, is that was said right after it was said that their name was Mankind, or Humanity, or Human. Your pick. So in Genesis 5, maybe the first three uses of adham, could more properly be read as “the human”. Thus, the geneology of the human, they both having the designation of ‘the human’ and the birth of their first son and ‘the human’ naming him Seth.