Adriana
Adriana is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
Adriana comes from the Latin and means the woman from the port city of Adria . In Etruscan one finds another meaning: square space .
name day
The following saints are eligible for memorial or name day :
- Adrian of Nicomedia , September 8 (Roman Catholic) and August 26 (Orthodox, Armenian and Coptic)
- Hadrian of Canterbury , January 9 (Roman Catholic)
- Adrian Jansen, July 9th (Roman Catholic)
variants
Variants of Adriana are Adriane, Adrienne, Andriana, Adrianna and Adrijana, as well as forms without "d" such as Ariana and Ariane . The masculine form of the name are Adrian , Adriano and Ariano . Jadranka can be considered the Slavic form of the name .
Well-known namesake
- Adriana Altaras (* 1960), German actress and theater director
- Adriana Ambesi , Italian actress
- Adriana Asti (born 1933), Italian actress
- Adriana Barraza (born 1956), Mexican actress
- Adriana Bottina (* 1977), Colombian actress and singer
- Adriana Calcanhotto (* 1965), Brazilian singer
- Adriana Caselotti (1916–1997), American singer and speaker
- Adriana Chechik (* 1991), American porn actress
- Adriana von Hanau (1470–1524) (1470–1524), wife of Count Philipp von Solms-Lich
- Adriana Hölszky (* 1953), Romanian-born composer and pianist
- Adriana Karembeu (born Adriana Sklenaříková ; * 1971), Slovak-French model
- Adriana Lima (* 1981), Brazilian model
- Adriana Lisboa (* 1970), Brazilian writer
- Adriana Lucía (* 1981/1982), Colombian singer
- Adriana von Nassau-Dillenburg (1449–1477), Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg
- Adriana Nikolowa (* 1988), Bulgarian chess player
- Adriana Nunes , Brazilian-German journalist
- Adriana Ozores (born 1959), Spanish actress
- Adriana Pirtea (* 1980), Romanian long-distance runner
- Adriana Santos (* 1971), Brazilian basketball player and trainer
- Adriana Tarábková (* 1966), Czech actress
- Adriana Trigiani (* 1970), American writer
- Adriana Zartl (* 1975), Austrian actress
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: First names . German language publisher. Wiesbaden 1977. ISBN 388228000X
- ↑ Biography of Saints Lexicon
- ↑ Biography at www.heiligenlexikon.de
- ↑ Biography at www.heiligenlexikon.de