Meaning not yet researched.
Adrain: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #811 in 1978.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #811 in 1978; #12,043 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adrain in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,043 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1978, at #811.
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Adrain: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #811 in 1978 · most boys in one year: 111 (1978).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Adrain, making it the 12,043rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,773 places from #7,270 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 11 boys named Adrain in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #811, reached in 1978. That year also had the most boys given the name: 111. For comparison, it was #5,753 in 2015 and #2,207 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Adrain in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,432, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 26, in 1972. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #4,740 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adrain in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 8 babies. In all, 4,820 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 1,065 babies named Adrain.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 133 US boys were named Adrain; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Adrian (287,982 babies since 1880), Adrien (11,194 babies since 1880) and Adryan (1,599 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Adrain in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #12,043 |
| 2024 | — | — | 11 | #7,270 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #12,282 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #9,845 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,181 |
| 2020 | — | — | 23 | #4,278 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #6,788 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,323 |
| 2017 | — | — | 19 | #4,939 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,101 |
| 2015 | — | — | 15 | #5,753 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,264 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,466 |
| 2012 | — | — | 28 | #3,717 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #3,999 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,378 |
| 2009 | — | — | 26 | #3,921 |
| 2008 | — | — | 27 | #3,825 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,136 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #2,980 |
| 2005 | — | — | 36 | #2,903 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,637 |
| 2003 | — | — | 31 | #3,045 |
| 2002 | — | — | 28 | #3,189 |
| 2001 | — | — | 36 | #2,618 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,222 |
| 1999 | — | — | 37 | #2,400 |
| 1998 | — | — | 35 | #2,451 |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,760 | 38 | #2,229 |
| 1996 | — | — | 47 | #1,908 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,623 |
| 1994 | — | — | 42 | #1,977 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,723 | 46 | #1,825 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,068 | 54 | #1,622 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,279 | 64 | #1,422 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,207 | 82 | #1,202 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,851 | 101 | #1,024 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,281 | 69 | #1,223 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,858 | 92 | #990 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,530 | 97 | #925 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,349 | 81 | #1,011 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,967 | 93 | #913 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,808 | 85 | #956 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,538 | 86 | #969 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,006 | 86 | #971 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,545 | 106 | #859 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,236 | 101 | #864 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,932 | 111 | #811 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,654 | 100 | #856 |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,155 | 93 | #866 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,593 | 96 | #850 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,362 | 87 | #856 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,342 | 76 | #925 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,681 | 86 | #868 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,652 | 66 | #998 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,705 | 71 | #951 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,102 | 46 | #1,152 |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,432 | 44 | #1,131 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,340 | 38 | #1,216 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,494 | 36 | #1,259 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,818 | 41 | #1,189 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,245 | 65 | #945 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,020 | 37 | #1,279 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,438 | 39 | #1,242 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,009 | 35 | #1,349 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,168 | 37 | #1,295 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,032 | 32 | #1,387 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,523 | 29 | #1,446 |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,921 | 34 | #1,345 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,911 | 29 | #1,444 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,835 | 25 | #1,538 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,754 | 29 | #1,408 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,676 | 15 | #2,039 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,798 | 20 | #1,701 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,775 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,740 | 12 | #2,207 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,023 |
| 1948 | — | — | 8 | #2,789 |
| 1947 | — | — | 10 | #2,500 |
| 1946 | — | — | 17 | #1,759 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,772 |
| 1944 | — | — | 13 | #1,988 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,405 |
| 1942 | — | — | 13 | #2,043 |
| 1941 | — | — | 16 | #1,759 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,865 | 21 | #1,473 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,637 |
| 1938 | — | — | 15 | #1,820 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,088 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,639 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,354 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,658 |
| 1933 | — | — | 12 | #2,093 |
| 1932 | — | — | 14 | #1,995 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,003 |
| 1930 | — | — | 18 | #1,753 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,200 |
| 1928 | — | — | 21 | #1,647 |
| 1927 | — | — | 24 | #1,561 |
| 1926 | — | — | 20 | #1,720 |
| 1925 | — | — | 39 | #1,121 |
| 1924 | — | — | 40 | #1,134 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,972 | 45 | #1,057 |
| 1922 | — | — | 20 | #1,766 |
| 1921 | — | — | 27 | #1,448 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,382 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,576 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,404 |
| 1917 | — | — | 15 | #1,986 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,260 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | #1,601 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #1,975 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,620 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,374 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #875 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).