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Adrian vs Adrionna

American parents have registered 287,982 Adrians since 1880, against 910 Adrionnas. Adrian is still ahead, with 4,505 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adrian against Adrionna, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adrian Adrionna

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

Adrian 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 Adrian had 6,310 and Adrionna had 50.

Side by side

  Adrian Adrionna
Total US births 287,982910
Most in one year 8,10061
Babies in 2025 4,505under 5
Estimated living today 269,000900
Median age today 2119
Peak year 20082009
Best rank 56th boys2,852nd girls
Rank in 2025 74thunranked
First recorded 18801989
Girls / boys 15,717 / 272,265910 / 0

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 Adrians alive today are over 21; half the Adrionnas are over 19. That is 2 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: Adrian and Adrionna.