इस नाम को इतिहासकारों ने सामान्य समूह [[यादव|जादव/यादव]] के नाम का एक रूप माना है|<ref name="DograMansukhani1995">{{cite book|author1=R. C. Dogra|author2=Gobind Singh Mansukhani|title=Encyclopaedia of Sikh religion and culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=upLXAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=17 June 2011|year=1995|publisher=Vikas Pub. House|isbn=978-0-7069-8368-5|page=226|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627124223/http://books.google.com/books?id=upLXAAAAMAAJ|archive-date=27 जून 2014|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Fox1977">{{cite book|author=Richard Gabriel Fox|title=Realm and region in traditional India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAXULggU0QMC|accessdate=17 June 2011|year=1977|publisher=Duke University, Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia|isbn=978-0-916994-12-9|page=83|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131009070738/http://books.google.com/books?id=CAXULggU0QMC|archive-date=9 अक्तूबर 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>
==वंशज जातियाँ==
जादमों को सिंध में [[सम्मा जनजाति]] का पूर्वज माना जाता है।<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=eQk8AAAAMAAJ&q=jadam&dq=jadam&hl=en&ei=CVFeTdbNI4X3rQeqwYymDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result#v=snippet&q=jadam&f=false|title=A Short Sketch, Historical and Traditional, of the Musalman Races Found in Sind, Baluchistan and Afghanistan, Their Genealogical Sub-divisions and Septs, Together with an Ethnological and Ethnographical Account|last=ʻAlī|first=Anṡārī ʻAlī Sher|date=1901|publisher=Printed at the Commissioner's Press|language=en}}</ref> [[भाटी|भाटी राजपूत]] और [[जादौन|जादौन राजपूत]] जादम के वंशज हैं।<ref name="Yadav1992">{{cite book|author=J. N. Singh Yadav|title=Yadavas through the ages, from ancient period to date|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJNHAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=17 June 2011|year=1992|publisher=Sharada Pub. House|isbn=978-81-85616-03-2|page=215|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115104022/http://books.google.com/books?id=QJNHAAAAMAAJ|archive-date=15 जनवरी 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> जादमों में से कुछ आगे चलकर [[जाट]] बन गये।<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=FGgMAQAAMAAJ&q=jadam&dq=jadam&hl=en&ei=RVNeTYT2E4OsrAe28rWyDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result|title=The Jats: Their Role & Contribution to the Socio-economic Life and Polity of North & North-west India|last=Singh|first=Vir|date=2007|publisher=Low Price Publications|isbn=978-81-88629-68-8|language=en}}</ref> [[जादौन]] या जादम [[भट्टी (जाति)|भट्टी]]/[[भाटी|भाटी राजपूत]] बन गए हैं और उनका अन्य [[यादव|यादवों]] या [[अहीर|अहीरों]] से कोई संबंध नहीं है। लेकिन राजस्थान और हरियाणा के जादाम मुख्य रूप से अन्य [[यादव]]<nowiki/>-[[अहीर|अहीरों]] की तरह हैं।
