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Adria vs Adrienne

American parents have registered 68,756 Adriennes since 1880, against 6,513 Adrias. Adrienne is still ahead, with 123 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adria Adrienne

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 2025, when Adria had 54 and Adrienne had 123.

Side by side

  Adria Adrienne
Total US births 6,51368,756
Most in one year 1642,089
Babies in 2025 54123
Estimated living today 6,00059,000
Median age today 3844
Peak year 19791983
Best rank 905th girls140th girls
Rank in 2025 3,028th1,673rd
First recorded 19101880
Girls / boys 6,506 / 768,356 / 400

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 Adrias are over 38. That is 6 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 Adria Adrienne
France 61034,925
Ireland 31,042
England and Wales 76252

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: Adria and Adrienne.