Meaning not yet researched.
Aariyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,508 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,508 in 2018; #3,713 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aariyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,713 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,508.
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Aariyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,508 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 70 (2018).
In 2025, 40 US girls were named Aariyah, making it the 3,713th most common girls’ name of the year, down 138 places from #3,575 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 43 girls named Aariyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,508, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 70. For comparison, it was #2,964 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aariyah in 23 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 13 babies. In all, 862 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 467 babies named Aariyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 527 US girls were named Aariyah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 70. In 2025 that was about 1 in 40,182 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariah (11,751 babies since 1880), Ariyah (11,120 babies since 1880), Ariya (7,400 babies since 1880) and Aarya (3,669 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aariyah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,476 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,002 | — | — |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,172 | — | — |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,508 | — | — |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,964 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,156 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 2011 | 41 | #3,723 | — | — |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,182 | — | — |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,378 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,955 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,825 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,842 | — | — |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,332 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,261 | — | — |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,000 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).