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Hadrian

#2,617 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly from the Roman harbor Hadria

Hadrian has been given to 829 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #2,617 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Hadrian, 2025

1 in 66,300

Hadrian over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hadrian: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly from the Roman harbor Hadria

Latin

What Hadrian means

Hadrian may mean “from the Roman harbor Hadria”, associated with Hadrianus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Latin Hadrianus (“from the Roman harbor Hadria”), from Etruscan 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀 (hatria), possibly from Venetic [script needed] (adur, “water”), related to English water, Latin unda and Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), all from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Doublet of Adrian. See Adria.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Hadrian (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Hadrian is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Hadrian comes through Latin Hadrianus, Etruscan 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀 and Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adrian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Hadrian is pronounced /ˈheɪ.dɹiː.(j)ən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 829 boys were recorded with the name Hadrian between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,617 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,188 in 2020 to #2,617 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,727 in 2015 to #2,617 in 2025.

How common is Hadrian?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,617
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hadrian 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 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hadrian. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Hadrians were born

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

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
829
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (330).

Is Hadrian 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
+226
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,571
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,110
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.72×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (50)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,617
2025

Spellings of Hadrian

Hadrian is not the most common spelling — Adrian is, with 78.3% against Hadrian's 0.24%.

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 Hadrian is used

Across 1910–2025, Hadrian was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 733,176 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Hadrian has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hadrian around the world

Where Hadrian 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
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #6,558
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Hadrian by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,617
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,571
Best rank ever
#2,617
2025
Peak year
2025
50 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
829
Count in 2025
50

Names similar to Hadrian

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

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Sibling names for Hadrian

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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