girls:
15.6k births since 1911
#1216 (79th percentile)
boys:
263.1k births since 1880
#139 (97th percentile)
overall:
278.7k births since 1880
#285 (96th percentile)
The name Adrian is the #285 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 278,704 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #139 (97.0% percentile) for all time with 263,087 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,216 (78.7% percentile) for all time with 15,617 births since 1911.
Adrian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1911 for girls).
The name Adrian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Adrian reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 94.0% percentile (ranked #56) with 3,008 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3,640 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Adrian ranks #65 for boys (93.0% percentile) with 2,537 births per million, which is 69.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Adrian reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #395) with 268 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 268 births per million (ranked 49.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1985, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Adrian ranks #882 for girls (6.9% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 15.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adrian".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Adrian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.0% confident that Adrian is pronounced as AY-dree-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-DREE-uhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 D R IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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