Karen vs Adrian - What's the difference?
karen | adrian |
. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
* 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
* 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
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* 1874 Bertha de Jongh, The Sisters Lawless, by the author of Rosa Noel , page 245:
* 1912 (Saki), :
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As a noun karen
is .As a proper noun adrian is
; the spanish equivalent of adrian.karen
English
(wikipedia Karen)Etymology 1
From (etyl) Karen.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
- I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .External links
Ethnologue report on the Karen languages
Etymology 3
Anagrams
* ----adrian
English
(wikipedia Adrian)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Which, of he or Adrian , for a good wager, first begins to crow?
- "My only worth will be in always remembering to do the thing that pleases you; and yet, although I don't really like Adie, it has a more home-like, more whisperable sound than Adrian'. ' Adrian is a grand, heroic sort of a name, yet what a beautiful name it is.
- His baptismal register spoke of him pessimistically as John Henry, but he had left that behind with the other maladies of infancy, and his friends knew him under the front-name of Adrian .
