Hadrian
[ˈhædriən]Meaning
from Hadria, the name of two Roman towns in Italy
Background Story
Hadrian comes from the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin. Hadria was the name of two Roman settlements: Adria in northern Italy, an Etruscan port town, and Atri in central Italy, which was named after the northern town. The name is used in Ancient Roman, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian and Latvian. Its best-known bearer was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, the 2nd-century Roman emperor, whose family came from Atri.
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