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Adriaan

#9,740 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Adrian

Adriaan has been given to 105 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #9,740 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Adriaan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Adriaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adriaan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Adrian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adriaan means

Adriaan is a form of Adrian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adriaan → Adrian. The family’s meaning is “from the Roman harbor Hadria”, recorded in English with the source elements Hadrianus.

Origin, language, and formation

Adriaan is used in Dutch.

Adriaan comes through Latin Adrianus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adrian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Adriaan is pronounced /ˈaːdri.aːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 105 boys were recorded with the name Adriaan between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,853 in 1977.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,626 in 2020 to #9,740 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adriaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,740
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adriaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adriaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adriaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adriaan was born before 2013 — so the typical Adriaan is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
105
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.9% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Adriaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+886
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
63.6%
Peak was 2011 (11)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,853
1977

Spellings of Adriaan

Adriaan is not the most common spelling — Adrian is, with 88.1% against Adriaan's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Adriaan around the world

Where Adriaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    2016–2017
    #4,782
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1952–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adriaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 886
Best rank ever
#5,853
1977
Peak year
2011
11 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
105
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Adriaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AdriellAdriannAdriusAdryenAdrithAdryelFarhaanAdreyanArshaanHridaanAdrickSufyaanSrihaanAdrieneAdriyanVardaanNihaanShriyaanZidaanAdritAdrisShrihaanSalmaanShivaan

Sibling names for Adriaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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