Adriana
A Latin name traced to Hadria, the town that named the Adriatic Sea. Given only to girls and uncommon enough today that meeting one stays with you, though after years of decline last year brought a small rebound: 47 newborns.
Adriana Pronunciation
Adriana is pronounced ahdr-YAH-nah (/adrˈjana/).
What Adriana means
Where Adriana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adriana comes from Latin. The seed is Hadria, an old town on the Adriatic coast of Italy that gave the sea its name, so the name reads, plainly, as the one who comes from Hadria.
The same root produced the emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus, the Hadrian who walled off northern Britain and rebuilt the Pantheon in Rome. From his name grew a family of forms: the masculine Adrian, the variant Andrian, and the feminine Adriana that a Polish register might list today. A girl named Adriana shares her origin with a stretch of salt water and a Roman emperor.
On her imieniny, the name sits on a card among classmates and cousins. It travels well across borders. Its shape holds in Polish and Italian alike, and the meaning holds with it: pochodząca z Hadrii, the one from Hadria.
When Adriana celebrates name day
Adriana appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 8 July.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Adriana
1 in 1367 women in Poland is named Adriana. 16,497 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #298 among female names.
Adriana's popularity over time
47 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #361 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #298 name among living women, even as it slips to #361 among newborns.
Where Adriana is most popular
Adriana is most popular in Lower Silesian, 65% above the national average (36 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+38%) and Pomeranian (+32%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Podlaskie, 60% and 45% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian36 girls born+65%
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Masovian68 girls born+38%
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Pomeranian27 girls born+32%
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Warmian-Masurian13 girls born+30%
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Lesser Poland38 girls born+21%
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West Pomeranian14 girls born+19%
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Opole6 girls born−6%
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Lubusz6 girls born−13%
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Łódź15 girls born−15%
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Silesian23 girls born−27%
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Lublin10 girls born−30%
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Subcarpathian11 girls born−34%
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Świętokrzyskie5 girls born−35%
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Greater Poland17 girls born−43%
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Podlaskie5 girls born−45%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian6 girls born−60%
Adriana as a middle name
Adriana is a first name for 16,497 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4,764, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 147th, between Waleria (4,801) and Felicja (4,742).
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#145 Violetta4,884
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#146 Waleria4,801
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#147 Adriana4,764
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#148 Felicja4,742
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#149 Elwira4,644