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Adrienne vs Adryan

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 1,599 Adryans. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adrienne 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

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 2020, when Adrienne had 239 and Adryan had 80.

Side by side

  Adrienne Adryan
Total US births 68,7561,599
Most in one year 2,08980
Babies in 2025 12323
Estimated living today 59,0001,600
Median age today 4414
Peak year 19832020
Best rank 140th girls1,962nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,673rd4,396th
First recorded 18801980
Girls / boys 68,356 / 400189 / 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 Adriennes alive today are over 44; half the Adryans are over 14. That is 30 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 Adrienne Adryan
France 34,925305

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 Adryan.