Adriaan

given name · Western Frisian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adriaan is a given name, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Adrianus.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 331◐
  • ZASouth Africa1 in 2.4K
  • AUAustralia1 in 99K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈53K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
148 ●

26K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 331 ◐

Netherlands

Meaning & origin●

Ultimately from Latin Adrianus.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Adriaan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands#7852,262△4.1K rec.1 in 33152KAdriaan125
ZA South Africa#21614,28214K rec.——Adriaan84
AU Australia—1,1711.1K rec.—1Adriaan72
DE Germany—628438 rec.—2Adriaan67
BE Belgium—616449 rec.——Adriaan69
GB United Kingdom—540367 rec.——Adriaan48
US United States—3643.2K rec.1 in 914K364Adriaan148
CA Canada—236209 rec.—1Adriaan39
BR Brazil—17642 rec.——Adriaan25
MX Mexico—169148 rec.——Adriaan19
NZ New Zealand—143116 rec.——Adriaan19
SE Sweden—130△11 rec.1 in 78K130—10

Roughly 52K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 331). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Western Frisian72K33%
  • Dutch66K31%
  • English65K30%
  • Swahili2.5K1%
  • German1.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Western Frisian72,00033%
Dutch66,38231%
English65,14330%
Swahili2,5431%
German1,5761%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adriaan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.4K records spelled Adriaan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, South Africa, Belgium, Netherlands

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Adriaán

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

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Adriaan in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199915
200015
200115
200217
200320
200419
200518
200620
200723
200825
200924
201024
201125
201226
201327
201428
201529
201630
201731
201831
201932
202034

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Hadrianus VI, b. 1459Adriaan Willaert, b. 1480Adriaan van Roomen, b. 1561Adriaan Metius, b. 1571Gerard Adriaan Heineken, b. 1841Adriaan Paulen, b. 1902Adriaan Blaauw, b. 1914Adriaan de Groot, b. 1914Adriaan van Wijngaarden, b. 1916Sven Botman, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 37 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Adriaan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—52K#41
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—20K#172
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020364#24,393
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—130#7,152
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—114#5,129
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—87#5,568
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200768#25,391
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—48#12,326
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—38#3,752
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202638#4,035
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201737#414
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202034—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 80 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adriaan?
We estimate roughly 53 thousand people bear Adriaan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Adriaan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 52 thousand people bear Adriaan in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adriaan.
Where is Adriaan most common?
Adriaan is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 331 people carrying it.
How common is Adriaan compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Adriaan is the 78th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
Is Adriaan a male or female name?
Adriaan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Adriaan mean?
Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Latin Adrianus.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adriaan” — the 78th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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