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Adriana vs Adriano

American parents have registered 96,796 Adrianas since 1880, against 2,545 Adrianos. Adriana is still ahead, with 836 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adriana against Adriano, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adriana Adriano

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

Adriana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1888 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1927, when Adriana had 15 and Adriano had 6.

Side by side

  Adriana Adriano
Total US births 96,7962,545
Most in one year 3,101119
Babies in 2025 83660
Estimated living today 94,0002,500
Median age today 2417
Peak year 20062006
Best rank 107th girls1,360th boys
Rank in 2025 366th2,304th
First recorded 18881921
Girls / boys 96,392 / 4040 / 2,545

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 Adrianas alive today are over 24; half the Adrianos are over 17. That is 7 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 Adriana Adriano
Italy 4,9507,102
France 3,6952,885
Poland 1,86045
England and Wales 1,613241
Switzerland 1,156606
Belgium 612631
Ireland 1994
Scotland 1378

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: Adriana and Adriano.