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Adriel vs Adron

American parents have registered 34,751 Adriels since 1880, against 1,100 Adrons. Adriel is still ahead, with 3,935 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adriel against Adron, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adriel Adron

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 116 years in which either name was published, Adriel for 59 years and Adron for 57 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Adriel Adron
Total US births 34,7511,100
Most in one year 3,93531
Babies in 2025 3,935under 5
Estimated living today 34,000500
Median age today 545
Peak year 20251928
Best rank 84th boys1,293rd boys
Rank in 2025 84thunranked
First recorded 19521901
Girls / boys 1,106 / 33,6450 / 1,100

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 Adrons alive today are over 45; half the Adriels are over 5. That is 40 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: Adriel and Adron.