- Unisex
- 6 letters
Adrian is a unisex name of English, German, Latin, Literary and Swedish origin. Meaning in English: From the Latin Hadrianus meaning of Adria or of the Adriatic sea region. Pope Adrian IV was a 12 century British Pope who became popular in the 1980s when Sue Townsend published ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole’. Meaning in German and Swedish: Dark. Meaning in Latin: Black; dark; of the Adriatic. A literary name from Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Coriolanus., where it belongs to a Volscian. ‘The Tempest’ A lord. The name has 6 letters.
Related names
Adrea
GirlLatin
From Adria, the Adriatic sea region. Also means dark.
Adrean
BoyLatin
Black; dark; of the Adriatic.
Adren
BoyLatin
Black; dark; of the Adriatic.
Adria
GirlLatin
From Adria, the Adriatic sea region. Also means dark.
Adriana
GirlItalian Spanish Latin Literary
Dark. Feminine form of Adrian, from the Latin Hadrianus meaning of Adria, or of the Adriatic. Also means dark. A literary name from Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, where it belongs to wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.
Adriane
GirlFrench German
From Adria, the Adriatic sea region. Also means dark. Dark.
Adrianne
GirlFrench Latin
From Adria, the Adriatic sea region. Also means dark. Feminine form of Adrian, from the Latin Hadrianus meaning of Adria, or of the Adriatic. Also means dark.
Adriano
BoyItalian Latin Literary Spanish
From the Adtiatic. Of the Adriatic. A literary name from Shakespeare's Love, where it belongs to s Labours Lost' Don Adriano De Armado, fantastical Spaniard. Dark; Variant of Adrian. From Adria.: (The Adriatic sea region.).