Adrianus

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Adriano in BR Brazil, PE Peru, AR Argentina and 16 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 16 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◐

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

• French given name1.1K records spelled Adrianus61 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Languages: French, Catalan, Arabic

  Also written Adrien, Adria, Adrià, อาเดรียน, Adríen

43 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●

Adrianus is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Indonesian, a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Adrian, mostly found on Christian Indonesians

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

• In Latin, a male given name, equivalent to English Adrian

  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●

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●

• Adrianus Turnebusb. 1512FRFrench classical scholar
• Adrianus Michaël de Jongb. 1888NLDutch novelist (1888–1943)
• Paul Janssenb. 1926BEnot in their usual nameBelgian scientist, founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica (1926–2003)
• Adrianus Simonisb. 1931NLCatholic cardinal (1931-2020)
• Ard Schenkb. 1944NLnot in their usual nameDutch Olympic speed skater
• Adrianus Franciscus Theodorus van der Heijdenb. 1951NLDutch author (born 1951)
• Adri van Tiggelenb. 1957NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer
• Rob Jettenb. 1987NLnot in their usual nameprime minister of the Netherlands
• Mike van der Hoornb. 1992NLnot in their usual nameDutch footballer (born 1992)
• Adrian, Count of Orléansnot in their usual nameFrankish count

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 · 59 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adrianus?

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

In which country does Adrianus have the most bearers?

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

Where is Adrianus most common?

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

How common is Adrianus compared with other names?

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

Is Adrianus a male or female name?

Adrianus 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.