Adrian's Name Day

8th September

Adrian, the name has a description or meaning which is 'from Adria', a port on the Adriatic Sea

Adrian has a Name day of 8th September, please check our history page to find out how this was derived

This description represents the Male usage of the name.

This name is a truly ancient name from which numerous variations have been derived as shown below (the M or F in brackets are Male or Female orientated names)

St Adrian is a patron saint of the following:

Symbols are often associated with Saints, it often helped in the middle ages when people were unable to read thus Adrian has the following symbols associated

Historically Famous Adrians

This name became widely known in England in the twelfth century, when Nicholas Breakespear took it on becoming the first and only English pope - Adrian IV. It was actually St Adrian III, however, who was canonized, although no one knows much about his life. An earlier Adrian, and his companion Eubulus, were martyred in Caesarea in 309 for visiting the Christians in prison there, and there was a St Adrian martyred by the Danes on one of their raids on the Scottish coasts in the ninth century. Another St Adrian was an African who became the Abbot of Canterbury, where he died peacefully in 710. . The most well-known St Adrian, married to St Natalia, was also martyred, in 304, for looking after persecuted Christians. He was a Roman soldier in Nicomedia who was so impressed by his Christian prisoners that he joined them. His wife encouraged him in his quest for martyrdom, and is herself venerated as a martyr, although she fled to Agyropolis after his execution, where she died of natural causes.