Meaning of the nameAdriano

Male
Latin origin
A-dri-a-no

Adriano is a masculine name of Latin origin, from Hadrianus, which means 'from Hadria', the name of cities in ancient Italy.

Meaning

“from Hadria, a city in Italy”

Source: Wiktionary: Hadrianus · Behind the Name: Hadrian

People (2022): 306,398
Rank in Brazil: #93
Median age: 37 years
2010 Census: 338,315; people

Adriano in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Adriano, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1980s (125,706 people).

1,650 women 304,748 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Adriano is most common

States with the highest share of people named Adriano in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Santa Catarina 0.186%
Paraná 0.177%
Paraíba 0.173%
Amapá 0.172%
Pernambuco 0.169%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	72,372	0.163%
Minas Gerais	27,185	0.132%
Rio de Janeiro	23,453	0.146%
Bahia	21,045	0.149%
Paraná	20,298	0.177%
Rio Grande do Sul	17,418	0.160%
Pernambuco	15,339	0.169%
Santa Catarina	14,178	0.186%
Pará	12,625	0.156%
Ceará	9,080	0.103%
Goiás	8,995	0.128%
Maranhão	8,569	0.126%
Paraíba	6,870	0.173%
Amazonas	6,406	0.163%
Mato Grosso	5,739	0.157%
Alagoas	5,272	0.169%
Espírito Santo	5,240	0.137%
Mato Grosso do Sul	4,554	0.165%
Rio Grande do Norte	4,381	0.133%
Sergipe	3,538	0.160%
Piauí	3,243	0.099%
Distrito Federal	3,194	0.113%
Rondônia	2,502	0.158%
Tocantins	1,921	0.127%
Amapá	1,263	0.172%
Acre	964	0.116%
Roraima	754	0.118%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Adriano

Wiktionary gives Adriano as a learned borrowing from Latin Adrianus (Hadrianus), formed from Hadria, a city in Picenum now called Atri, plus the suffix -anus, and has Adrião as a divergent form. Behind the Name explains Hadrianus as a Roman cognomen that meant 'from Hadria', the name of two Roman settlements; the one in northern Italy gave its name to the Adriatic Sea. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 306,398 people named Adriano, with a peak among those born in the 1980s; proportionally, the name is most common in Santa Catarina. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil (Dictionary of Names in Use in Brazil) records Adrianno and Adryano as spelling variants.

Sources

Wiktionary: Adriano · en.wiktionary.org · origin
Wiktionary: Hadrianus · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Behind the Name: Hadrian · behindthename.com · meaning
Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Adriano · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Adriano

What does the name Adriano mean?

Adriano means “from Hadria, a city in Italy”, according to Wiktionary and Behind the Name.

How many people are named Adriano in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 306,398 people with the first name Adriano, which ranks it number 93 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1980s.

Is Adriano a boy's or a girl's name?

Adriano is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 1,650 women and 304,748 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Adriano?

Adriano is a name of Latin origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Adriano most common?

Proportionally, in Santa Catarina: 0.186% of the state's population is named Adriano (14,178 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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