# Adriaan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adriaan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 105 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 105 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 5 | 5,855 |
| 1998 | 5 | 9,651 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,390 |
| 2007 | 6 | 10,946 |
| 2008 | 6 | 11,069 |
| 2010 | 10 | 7,600 |
| 2011 | 11 | 7,021 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,034 |
| 2014 | 7 | 9,661 |
| 2016 | 11 | 7,163 |
| 2017 | 8 | 8,865 |
| 2018 | 7 | 9,700 |
| 2020 | 6 | 10,632 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9,744 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2015 | 3 | 4,747 |

## People named Adriaan

- Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (1914–2010)
- Adriaan van Roomen, Belgian mathematician (1561–1615)
- Adriaan Daniel Fokker, Dutch physicist (1887–1972)
- Adriaan van Royen, Dutch botanist and university teacher (1704-1779)
- Adriaan Reland, Dutch scholar (1676-1718)
- Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch astronomer (1884–1946)
- Adriaan Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer (1571–1635)
- Gerard Adriaan Heineken, founder of beer company Heineken International (1841–1893)
- Adriaan Paulen, Dutch athlete and president of the IAAF (1902-1985)
- Adriaan Roland Holst, Dutch writer (1888–1976)
- Adriaan van den Spiegel, Flemish physician, anatomist (1578-1625)
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Dutch computer scientist (1916-1987)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.