Adriano
An Italian form of a Latin name meaning "from Hadria", the Adriatic town. It stays rare in Poland: around 230 men carry it, and it goes to fewer boys each year.
Adriano Pronunciation
Adriano is pronounced ahdr-YAH-no (/adrˈjanɔ/).
What Adriano means
Where Adriano comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adriano comes from the Latin Hadrianus, meaning "from Hadria." Hadria was an old town in northern Italy, and it lent its name to the Adriatic Sea.
The Roman emperor Hadrian, Publius Aelius Hadrianus, carried the same root. He ruled from 117 to 138 and built the wall across northern Britain that still bears his name. The word points back to a place, not to a virtue or a trait.
The name settled into Italian as Adriano. The singer and actor Adriano Celentano, born in Milan in 1938, made the form familiar well beyond Italy. In a Polish class register, Adriano stands a little apart from the more common Polish Adrian.
The short meaning stays close to the origin: one who comes from Hadria. In Polish that reads "pochodzący z hadrii."
How many people are named Adriano
1 in 93624 men in Poland is named Adriano. 228 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2057 among male names.
Adriano's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Adriano as a middle name
Adriano is a first name for 228 men in Poland and a middle name for another 39, an 85/15 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1265th, between Żelisław (40) and Ari (39).
-
#1263 Świętosław40
-
#1264 Żelisław40
-
#1265 Adriano39
-
#1266 Ari39
-
#1267 Baptiste39