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Adra vs Adrienne

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 592 Adras. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adra against Adrienne, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adra Adrienne

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 139 years in which either name was published, Adrienne for 138 years and Adra for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Adra Adrienne
Total US births 59268,756
Most in one year 142,089
Babies in 2025 under 5123
Estimated living today 36059,000
Median age today 4444
Peak year 19711983
Best rank 4,123rd girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,673rd
First recorded 18881880
Girls / boys 592 / 068,356 / 400

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Adra Adrienne
France 534,925

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adra and Adrienne.