Adrian

Adrian is the 6,460th most common surname in the United States, shared by 5,058 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 59,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,058
Rank: 6,460th
How common: 1 in 59,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Adrian described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 75.3%
Hispanic or Latino 17.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 1.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Adrian

Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977)English electrophysiologist
Nathan Adrian (born 1988)American swimmer
Iris Adrian (1912–1994)American actress
Cem Adrian (born 1980)Turkish musician, singer-songwriter and record producer
Tamara Adrián (born 1954)Venezuelan politician and lawyer

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

Also a first name

Adrian has been given to 287,982 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2008. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.