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Adrain

Adrain reached its high-water mark in 1978 at number 811, and has been recorded 4,820 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 3,800 Adrains are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Adrain boys named Adrain

Girls and boys called Adrain

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 568 girls and 4,252 boys in all, and in 2016 the split was 0 to 25.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 69 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
4,820
Estimated living today
3,800
Median age today
44
Peak year
1978
Best rank
811th
Rank in 2025
12,008th
First recorded
1904
Girls / boys
568 / 4,252

How old the living Adrains are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,820 babies given the name since 1904, about 3,800 are alive — 80 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Adrain is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Adrain is most concentrated in Texas (5.1×), Mississippi (3.7×), Georgia (3.7×), Louisiana (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1978

The most popular boys’ names the year Adrain peaked:

All the names of 1978

Adrain elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Ireland boys Adrain 12 207th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Adrain against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.