Adrian
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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'. Dark. 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.
