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Adrienne vs Adrin

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 419 Adrins. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrienne Adrin

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 1920, when Adrienne had 86 and Adrin had 11.

Side by side

  Adrienne Adrin
Total US births 68,756419
Most in one year 2,08919
Babies in 2025 1236
Estimated living today 59,000360
Median age today 4426
Peak year 19831978
Best rank 140th girls2,375th boys
Rank in 2025 1,673rd10,695th
First recorded 18801919
Girls / boys 68,356 / 40012 / 407

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 Adrins are over 26. That is 18 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 Adrienne Adrin
England and Wales 2529

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: Adrienne and Adrin.