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Adriel vs Adrion

American parents have registered 34,751 Adriels since 1880, against 778 Adrions. Adriel is still ahead, with 3,935 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adriel against Adrion, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adriel Adrion

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 73 years in which either name was published, Adriel for 66 years and Adrion for 7 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Adriel Adrion
Total US births 34,751778
Most in one year 3,93527
Babies in 2025 3,9358
Estimated living today 34,000730
Median age today 524
Peak year 20252007
Best rank 84th boys3,793rd boys
Rank in 2025 84th8,910th
First recorded 19521918
Girls / boys 1,106 / 33,6450 / 778

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 Adrions alive today are over 24; half the Adriels are over 5. That is 19 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: Adriel and Adrion.