Adrain
Adrain is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. Its best rank was 803rd, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 110.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1978112 births
- Best rank
- #803in 1978
- Since 1904
- 4,815people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,247 boys have been named Adrain in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1978, with 112 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1980s alone account for 21%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 568 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adrain | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 13 | |
| 1910s | 115 | |
| 1920s | 277 | |
| 1930s | 162 | |
| 1940s | 137 | |
| 1950s | 243 | |
| 1960s | 418 | |
| 1970s | 887 | |
| 1980s | 896 | |
| 1990s | 501 | |
| 2000s | 326 | |
| 2010s | 217 | |
| 2020s | 55 |
In 1978, its biggest year
Adrain was the 803rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1978 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, David and James. See all of 1978.
Names that rose and fell with Adrain
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Clifftonpeak 1982
- Lamarrpeak 1984
- Titopeak 1974
- Maricepeak 1976
- Lavellepeak 1989
- Philippepeak 1979
- Gorgepeak 1975
- Erichpeak 1971
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.