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Adrianna vs Adrienne

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 48,307 Adriannas. But in 2025 it was Adrianna that was commoner, 308 babies to 123.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrianna Adrienne

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 139 years in which either name was published, Adrienne for 107 years and Adrianna for 32 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adrianna Adrienne
Total US births 48,30768,756
Most in one year 2,0782,089
Babies in 2025 308123
Estimated living today 47,00059,000
Median age today 2044
Peak year 20071983
Best rank 169th girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 872nd1,673rd
First recorded 19101880
Girls / boys 48,284 / 2368,356 / 400

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 Adriennes 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.

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 Adrianna Adrienne
France 42534,925
Ireland 1011,042
England and Wales 665252
Scotland 65143

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: Adrianna and Adrienne.