Adrienne n'est pas dans la Bible — et « chrétien » ne l'était pas non plus, au début

Adrienne is not in the Bible. It is the French feminine of Adrian, which is the Latin Hadrianus, “from Hadria” — a town on the north Italian coast that also gave its name to the Adriatic. Which means the name is three removes from any meaning of its own: a feminine of a masculine of a place. And that, dear friends, is very nearly how Christians got their name too. What does the name Adrienne mean? From Hadria, by way…