Hadrian is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Adrian, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Hadrian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,617 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Hadrian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,617 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Hadrian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,617 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 50 (2025).
In 2025, 50 US boys were named Hadrian, making it the 2,617th most common boys’ name of the year, up 226 places from #2,843 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 45 boys named Hadrian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,617, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #3,728 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Hadrian in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 829 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 330 babies named Hadrian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 342 US boys were named Hadrian; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 50. In 2025 that was about 1 in 34,162 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Hadrian ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #2,163 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adrian (287,982 babies since 1880), Adrien (11,194 babies since 1880) and Adriano (2,545 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Galician. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Hadrian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 50 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,163 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 50 | #2,617 |
| 2024 | — | — | 45 | #2,843 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,928 |
| 2022 | — | — | 34 | #3,431 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,445 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,192 |
| 2019 | — | — | 28 | #3,837 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,327 |
| 2017 | — | — | 33 | #3,409 |
| 2016 | — | — | 33 | #3,386 |
| 2015 | — | — | 29 | #3,728 |
| 2014 | — | — | 40 | #2,903 |
| 2013 | — | — | 34 | #3,220 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,473 |
| 2011 | — | — | 35 | #3,195 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,337 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,755 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,515 |
| 2007 | — | — | 36 | #3,154 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,929 |
| 2005 | — | — | 18 | #4,700 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,093 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,112 |
| 2002 | — | — | 15 | #4,996 |
| 2001 | — | — | 15 | #4,970 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,879 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,718 |
| 1998 | — | — | 12 | #5,259 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,832 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,421 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #9,354 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,234 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,674 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,134 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,646 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,829 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,437 |
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).