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Adrianne vs Adriano

American parents have registered 13,363 Adriannes since 1880, against 2,545 Adrianos. But in 2025 it was Adriano that was commoner, 60 babies to 20.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adrianne against Adriano, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adrianne Adriano

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

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Adrianne for 94 years and Adriano for 12 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Adrianne Adriano
Total US births 13,3632,545
Most in one year 446119
Babies in 2025 2060
Estimated living today 12,0002,500
Median age today 4217
Peak year 19832006
Best rank 458th girls1,360th boys
Rank in 2025 5,917th2,304th
First recorded 19191921
Girls / boys 13,332 / 310 / 2,545

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 Adriannes alive today are over 42; half the Adrianos are over 17. That is 25 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 Adrianne Adriano
France 1902,885
England and Wales 85241
Ireland 274
Scotland 38

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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Related comparisons

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