Adriana is the feminine of Adrian — from the Latin Hadrianus, meaning "from Hadria," a coastal city in northern Italy that gave its name to the Adriatic Sea. Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE), builder of Hadrian's Wall, is the most famous bearer of the masculine form.
Adriana is one of the most popular girl's names across Italy, Spain, Romania, and Latin America. In the U.S. it sits in the top 200. Four syllables of pure music.
Adriana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adriana reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.