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Adrea vs Adrienne

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 735 Adreas. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrea 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

Adrienne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2004, when Adrea had 16 and Adrienne had 375.

Side by side

  Adrea Adrienne
Total US births 73568,756
Most in one year 322,089
Babies in 2025 under 5123
Estimated living today 70059,000
Median age today 4144
Peak year 19821983
Best rank 2,830th girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,673rd
First recorded 19431880
Girls / boys 735 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Adriennes alive today are over 44; half the Adreas are over 41. That is 3 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 Adrienne.