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Adrianne vs Adryan

American parents have registered 13,363 Adriannes since 1880, against 1,599 Adryans. But in 2025 it was Adryan that was commoner, 23 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrianne Adryan

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 106 years in which either name was published, Adrianne for 98 years and Adryan for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Adrianne Adryan
Total US births 13,3631,599
Most in one year 44680
Babies in 2025 2023
Estimated living today 12,0001,600
Median age today 4214
Peak year 19832020
Best rank 458th girls1,962nd boys
Rank in 2025 5,917th4,396th
First recorded 19191980
Girls / boys 13,332 / 31189 / 1,410

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 Adryans are over 14. That is 28 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 Adrianne Adryan
France 190305

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 Adryan.