Girls' name · peaked in 2006

Adriana name popularity since 1925

96,588 babies born in the US from 1925 to 2025 were named Adriana. Half of them were born in 2001 or earlier, so the typical Adriana is about 25 years old in 2026. Adriana peaked in 2006 as the #107 name for girls, and it ranked #366 in 2025.

Key facts

US babies since 1925
96,588
Named Adriana, 1925–2025
Peak year
2006
#107 for girls that year
Typical age
About 25
Median birth year 2001
In 2025
#366
for girls in 2025 (836 babies)
Girls / boys
99.6% girls
96,184 girls · 404 boys
Most popular in
California
2.50× its national share

Peak year is the year Adriana made up the largest share of US girls, in records going back to 1880. Typical age is based on births from 1925 on, not on who is living today.

Adriana births per year, 1925–2025

Babies named Adriana per year, 1925–2025

2006 was the biggest year for Adriana both by count and as a share of all babies.

  • Fastest rise: Between 1963 and 1968, Adriana became 2.5× more common, from 1 in 11,200 baby girls to 1 in 4,520.
  • Steepest fall: Between 2011 and 2016, its share of baby girls fell by 36%, from 1 in 758 to 1 in 1,180.

Shaded on the chart. Both compare Adriana's share of all US girls five years apart, counting only years with at least 100 babies named Adriana.

Decade by decade

Babies named Adriana in each decade, and its rank among girls' names in the middle year of the decade (1935, 1945 … 2025).

Decade GirlsBoys Rank
1925–29 780 –
1930s 1670 #1,918
1940s 2670 #1,745
1950s 6540 #1,361
1960s 2,4510 #631
1970s 6,20035 #355
1980s 12,631173 #231
1990s 22,342127 #157
2000s 27,40451 #121
2010s 18,18513 #185
2020–25 5,8055 #366

Ranks count every name given to at least 5 girls that year, so they can go past 1,000.

Generation fingerprint

43.2% of babies named Adriana from 1925 to 2025 were born in the Gen Z years (1997–2012). The full split by generation:

Adriana by generation Greatest Generation born 1925–27 0.1% Silent Generation born 1928–45 0.3% Baby Boomers born 1946–64 1.7% Gen X born 1965–80 9.3% Millennials born 1981–96 27.7% Gen Z born 1997–2012 43.2% Gen Alpha born 2013–25 17.7%

Where Adriana is most popular

The index compares Adriana's share of babies in each state with its share nationwide, 1925–2025 (1.50× = 50% more common). States with at least 300 babies named Adriana.

StateIndexBabies
California2.50×25,120
Nevada2.37×802
Arizona2.17×2,667
Texas2.00×14,876
New Mexico1.83×963

Other spellings

Spellings that sound like Adriana and were given to at least 1,000 girls from 1925 to 2025, with the year each one was most popular.

SpellingGirlsPeak year
Adriana (this page) 96,184 2006
Adrianna 48,172 1997
Adrina 1,612 2011

Names with a similar story

Of the other 1999 names on this site, these six had the share of babies closest in shape to Adriana's from 1925 to 2025, however common each one got. Each line is scaled to its own high; the dashed line is Adriana.

Names from the same era

Other common names that peaked within two years of Adriana (2006).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national and state baby-name data, which covers names given to at least 5 babies of one sex in a year. About the data