Hadrian is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Hadrian is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Hadrian. In the SmartGenius ranking, Hadrian is #3,032 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Hadrian.
In fact, the name Hadrian did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Hadrian seemed to be more popular than ever in 2014. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,607, 40 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Hadrian, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Hadrian was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Hadrian a few times. Among all newborn boys it ranked #2,994 - with a total of 34 baby boys. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving boys with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
The first name Hadrian is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 51 Americans in total bear this name. And these 51 men are located in only four states: California, Michigan, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Hadrian and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Hadrian in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 544,389 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Hadrian present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Hadrian has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Hadrian and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Hadrian, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Dinosaur
Rocket
Igloo
Apple
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Hadrian
Hadrian
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
D
R
I
A
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
A
D
R
I
A
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Hadrian sounds like this:
