Adrienne
Adrienne reached its high-water mark in 1983 at number 140, and has been recorded 68,756 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,673rd. About 59,000 Adriennes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Adrienne boys named Adrienne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 68,756
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1983
- Best rank
- 140th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,673rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 68,356 / 400
How old the living Adriennes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 68,756 babies given the name since 1880, about 59,000 are alive — 86 in every hundred. Roughly 5,400 of them are children and 8,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
From the French Adrienne, the feminine form of Adrien (equivalent to English Adrian).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Adriennes
- Adrienne Rich (1929–2012)American poet, essayist and feminist
- Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945)American actress
- Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939)26th governor general of Canada
- Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006)American actress
- Adrienne Bailon-Houghton (born 1983)American singer, actress, and television personality
- Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692–1730)French actress
- Princess Adrienne, Duchess of Blekinge (born 2018)Swedish princess, youngest child of Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill
- Adrienne King (born 1955)American actor, dancer and painter
People named Adrienne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adrienne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adrienne is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.6×), New York (1.6×), New Jersey (1.5×), Louisiana (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1983
The most popular girls’ names the year Adrienne peaked:
Adrienne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Adrienne | 34,925 | 47th |
| Ireland girls | Adrienne | 1,042 | 77th |
| New Zealand girls | Adrienne | 625 | 78th |
| England and Wales girls | Adrienne | 252 | 629th |
| Scotland girls | Adrienne | 143 | 196th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adrienne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Adrienne | 12 | 49 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Adrienne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.