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Adrian (surname)

Variants:Adriaans (S) Adriaanse (S) Adriaansen (S) Adriaansz (S) Adriaens (S) Adrianov (S) Adrien (S) Adriyashev (S) Arianello (S) Arianetto (S)
Derivative of:Adrian (M) Hadrian (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Notes:

Western European, from the Roman forename Hadrian/Adrian, the original meaning being "a man from Hadria", a town in northern Italy.
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