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Adrianne vs Adrienna

American parents have registered 13,363 Adriannes since 1880, against 796 Adriennas. Adrianne is still ahead, with 20 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrianne Adrienna

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 1997, when Adrianne had 145 and Adrienna had 35.

Side by side

  Adrianne Adrienna
Total US births 13,363796
Most in one year 44646
Babies in 2025 20under 5
Estimated living today 12,000770
Median age today 4231
Peak year 19831989
Best rank 458th girls2,478th girls
Rank in 2025 5,917thunranked
First recorded 19191960
Girls / boys 13,332 / 31796 / 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 Adriannes alive today are over 42; half the Adriennas are over 31. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Adrianne Adrienna
France 1905
Ireland 273

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: Adrianne and Adrienna.