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The Adrien surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 649 people carried this name — #34,801 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is up 58% from 410 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Adrien surname

Patronymic surname, borrowed from French Adrien. This surname is mostly found in Haiti.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Adrien» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 653 people named Adrien.

23 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 70 départements, most often La Réunion.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 23
La Réunion 95
Paris 83
Vendée 41
Calvados 36
Charente-Maritime 26
Nord 21
Pas-de-Calais 21
Marne 19

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 46 people named Adrien live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Liège 34
Flemish Brabant 7
Brussels-Capital 5

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

Who carried it

People named Adrien,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Henri Gaston Darien
    Henri Gaston Darien 1864–1926 · painter
  • Adrien d. 1410 · writer
  • Raoul Adrien 1561–1629 · poet
  • Martin-Joseph Adrien 1766–1822 · composer
  • Philippe Adrien 1939–2021 · screenwriter
  • Mady Andrien 1941– · artist

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Adrien.

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