Adrian

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Adrian boys named Adrian

By the numbers

Total US births

287,982

Estimated living today

269,000

Median age today

21

Peak year

2008

Best rank

56th

Rank in 2025

74th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

15,717 / 272,265

How old the living Adrians are

born that year still alive today

Of the 287,982 babies given the name since 1880, about 269,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 112,000 of them are children and 6,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 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 the name comes from

Origin Latin, Etruscan

From Latin Hadrianus (“from the Roman harbor Hadria”) a place name ultimately from ett 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀. See Adria.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Adrians

• Adrian VI (1459–1523)pope of the Catholic Church from 1522 to 1523
• Adrian IV (died 1159)Pope from 1154 to 1159
• Adrian I (700–795)Pope from 772 to 795
• Adrian II (792–872)pope
• Adrian III (died 885)pope
• Adrian V (1205–1276)pope
• Adrian Mutu (born 1979)Romanian footballer
• Adrian Smith (born 1957)English guitarist

People named Adrian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Adrian is most common

• CA67,353
• TX46,717
• FL16,545
• NY14,622
• IL13,092
• AZ9,349
• GA6,712
• NC6,422
• NJ6,001
• OH5,280

Relative to how many babies each state records, Adrian is most concentrated in Nevada (3.0×), Arizona (2.7×), New Mexico (2.6×), California (2.4×).

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

Names of 2008

The most popular boys’ names the year Adrian peaked:

• Jacob
• Michael
• Ethan
• Joshua
• Daniel
• Alexander

All the names of 2008

Adrian elsewhere

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.

Adrian: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Adrian is most concentrated in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, where 0.31% of children were given it – 36 of them.

Adrian: rank by region

In 2025, Adrian was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2024, Adrian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2013, Adrian was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Adrian was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Adrian appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (177th), Province of Liège (183rd), Brussels-Capital Region (225th), Province of East Flanders (264th) and Province of Antwerp (290th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Adrian by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Adrian among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Adrian lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 164,750 men called Adrian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Adriana
• Adrienne
• Adrianna
• Adriel
• Adrianne
• Adrien
• Adria
• Adriane
• Adrain
• Adriano
• Adriene
• Adrina

Adrian against another name

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

• Adrian vs Adriana
• Adrian vs Adrienne
• Adrian vs Adrianna
• Adrian vs Adriel
• Adrian vs Adrianne
• Adrian vs Adrien

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