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Adric vs Adrienne

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 480 Adrics. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adric 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

Adrienne 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 2014, when Adric had 36 and Adrienne had 340.

Side by side

  Adric Adrienne
Total US births 48068,756
Most in one year 362,089
Babies in 2025 11123
Estimated living today 47059,000
Median age today 1544
Peak year 20141983
Best rank 3,090th boys140th girls
Rank in 2025 7,194th1,673rd
First recorded 19841880
Girls / boys 0 / 48068,356 / 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 Adrics are over 15. That is 29 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adric and Adrienne.