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Adrea vs Adriel

American parents have registered 34,751 Adriels since 1880, against 735 Adreas. Adriel is still ahead, with 3,935 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adrea against Adriel, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adrea Adriel

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 76 years in which either name was published, Adriel for 58 years and Adrea for 18 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Adrea Adriel
Total US births 73534,751
Most in one year 323,935
Babies in 2025 under 53,935
Estimated living today 70034,000
Median age today 415
Peak year 19822025
Best rank 2,830th girls84th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked84th
First recorded 19431952
Girls / boys 735 / 01,106 / 33,645

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Adreas alive today are over 41; half the Adriels are over 5. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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