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Adrena vs Adrianne

American parents have registered 13,363 Adriannes since 1880, against 507 Adrenas. Adrianne is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adrena against Adrianne, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adrena Adrianne

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

Adrianne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1919 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1929, when Adrena had 5 and Adrianne had 8.

Side by side

  Adrena Adrianne
Total US births 50713,363
Most in one year 18446
Babies in 2025 under 520
Estimated living today 47012,000
Median age today 4442
Peak year 19891983
Best rank 4,848th girls458th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked5,917th
First recorded 19291919
Girls / boys 507 / 013,332 / 31

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 Adriannes are over 42. That is 2 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 Adrianne.