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Adrean vs Adriel

American parents have registered 34,751 Adriels since 1880, against 1,216 Adreans. Adriel is still ahead, with 3,935 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrean 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 71 years in which either name was published, Adriel for 64 years and Adrean for 7 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Adrean Adriel
Total US births 1,21634,751
Most in one year 423,935
Babies in 2025 73,935
Estimated living today 1,20034,000
Median age today 285
Peak year 20092025
Best rank 3,162nd boys84th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th84th
First recorded 19471952
Girls / boys 410 / 8061,106 / 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 Adreans alive today are over 28; half the Adriels are over 5. That is 23 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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