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Drina

Girls' name

Diminutive of Adriana

Drina has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1946, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Drina, 2020

1 in 557,000

Drina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Drina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Adriana

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Drina means

Drina is a diminutive of Adriana.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Drina is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Drina is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adriana and Alexandrina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 263 girls were recorded with the name Drina between 1938 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1946; its best national rank was #2,916 in 1946.

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 Drina?

Drina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 269,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,120 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Drina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 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 386,120 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Drina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Drinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Drina was born before 1976 — so the typical Drina is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
233
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Drina 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
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1946 (12)
Years since peak
79
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,916
1946

Spellings of Drina

Drina is not the most common spelling — Donna is, with 19.7% against Drina's <0.01%.

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.

Where Drina is used

Across 1910–2025, Drina was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,829,369 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Drina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Drina around the world

Where Drina 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
    2014–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1950–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Drina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,916
1946
Peak year
1946
12 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
263
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Drina

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

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Sibling names for Drina

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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