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Adria vs Adrianne

American parents have registered 13,363 Adriannes since 1880, against 6,513 Adrias. But in 2025 it was Adria that was commoner, 54 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adria 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

Of the 116 years in which either name was published, Adrianne for 89 years and Adria for 27 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Adria Adrianne
Total US births 6,51313,363
Most in one year 164446
Babies in 2025 5420
Estimated living today 6,00012,000
Median age today 3842
Peak year 19791983
Best rank 905th girls458th girls
Rank in 2025 3,028th5,917th
First recorded 19101919
Girls / boys 6,506 / 713,332 / 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 Adriannes alive today are over 42; half the Adrias are over 38. That is 4 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Adria Adrianne
France 610190
England and Wales 7685
Ireland 327

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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