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Adrian vs Adrielly

American parents have registered 287,982 Adrians since 1880, against 73 Adriellys. Adrian is still ahead, with 4,505 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adrian against Adrielly, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adrian Adrielly

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

Adrian 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 2023, when Adrian had 4,736 and Adrielly had 30.

Side by side

  Adrian Adrielly
Total US births 287,98273
Most in one year 8,10030
Babies in 2025 4,5056
Estimated living today 269,00070
Median age today 212
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 56th boys4,565th girls
Rank in 2025 74th13,208th
First recorded 18802021
Girls / boys 15,717 / 272,26573 / 0

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 Adrians alive today are over 21; half the Adriellys are over 2. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adrian and Adrielly.