Adrian
Adrian is ranked 72nd among boys in 2024 (4,617 births). Its best rank was 56th, in 2008, 2010–2011, 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #72down 5 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,6170.27% of boys
- Peak year
- 20087,937 births
- Best rank
- #56first in 2008
- Since 1880
- 283,427people given the name
The story in the numbers
267,752 boys have been named Adrian in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 7,937 births — 0.39% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 59 → 72).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2004, and the 2000s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 38 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 15,675 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adrian | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 148 | |
| 1890s | 196 | |
| 1900s | 312 | |
| 1910s | 1,901 | |
| 1920s | 2,741 | |
| 1930s | 2,176 | |
| 1940s | 2,639 | |
| 1950s | 4,057 | |
| 1960s | 7,672 | |
| 1970s | 18,913 | |
| 1980s | 28,141 | |
| 1990s | 41,980 | |
| 2000s | 66,120 | |
| 2010s | 65,974 | |
| 2020s | 24,782 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Adrian was the 56th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2008 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Adrian
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Estebanpeak 2005
- Vladimirpeak 2016
- Fabianpeak 2007
- Zachpeak 2007
- Markopeak 2006
- Nasserpeak 2014
- Markospeak 2008
- Gabrielpeak 2008
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.