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Adrena vs Adrianna

American parents have registered 48,307 Adriannas since 1880, against 507 Adrenas. Adrianna is still ahead, with 308 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrena Adrianna

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 112 years in which either name was published, Adrianna for 109 years and Adrena for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Adrena Adrianna
Total US births 50748,307
Most in one year 182,078
Babies in 2025 under 5308
Estimated living today 47047,000
Median age today 4420
Peak year 19892007
Best rank 4,848th girls169th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked872nd
First recorded 19291910
Girls / boys 507 / 048,284 / 23

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 Adrenas alive today are over 44; half the Adriannas are over 20. That is 24 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: Adrena and Adrianna.