Adriano

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Adrianus in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, AU Australia and 3 more and Hadrian in AT Austria.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Adriano is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name370K records spelled Adriano8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Australia, Ecuador

  Languages: English, Dutch, Western Frisian

  Also written Ādrïāńō, Ådrïãńö, Ädrïanö, Adriáno

• German given name16K records spelled Adriano3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, Germany, Austria, United States

  Also written Adriánó

• Indonesian given name5.9K records spelled Adriano3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, Italy, Peru

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Adriäno

• a separate given name5.7K records spelled Adriano2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Italy, United Kingdom

  Also written Adrian-O

• Croatian given name5.4K records spelled Adriano15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, United States

  Languages: Croatian, Hungarian, Bulgarian

  Also written Adrijano, Адриано, Адријано

61 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.

Other recorded senses●

Adriano is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Italian, forma italiana de Hadrianus

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• Proveniente da Adria

  as a name·Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

• In Italian, Variante di Adriani

  as a name·Dizionario dei cognomi italiani

• In Spanish, a male given name from Latin, a less popular variant of Adrián, equivalent to English Adrian

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latin, dative/ablative singular of Adriānus

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 123 years between 1901–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Adriano Banchierib. 1568ITItalian composer
• Adriano Bolzonib. 1919ITItalian journalist, writer and film director (1919–2005)
• Adriano Celentanob. 1938ITItalian musician and actor (born 1938)
• Adriano Pappalardob. 1945ITItalian singer and actor (born 1945)
• Adriano Maleianeb. 1949MZFormer prime Minister of Mozambique
• Adriano Panattab. 1950ITItalian tennis player (born 1950)
• Adriano Espaillatb. 1954USDominican-American politician (born 1954)
• Adriano Gianninib. 1971ITItalian actor
• Adrianob. 1982BRBrazilian footballer (born 1982)
• Adrian IIIITnot in their usual namepope

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,031 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adriano?

We estimate roughly 497 thousand people bear Adriano (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Adriano have the most bearers?

We estimate about 306 thousand people bear Adriano in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adriano.

Where is Adriano most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adriano is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 98 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Adriano compared with other names?

In Brazil, Adriano is the 109th most common given name of 536,280 given names recorded there.

Is Adriano a male or female name?

Adriano 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 Adriano mean?

Recorded meaning: dal toponimo Adria; lat.