Meaning not yet researched.
Ari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 808 in 2025. Its best rank was #328 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #328 in 2022; #393 in 2025. About 63% of babies named Ari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#393 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #328.
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Ari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 808 boys in 2025. Peak: #328 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 1,030 (2022).
In 2025, 808 US boys were named Ari, making it the 393rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 6 places from #399 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 807 boys named Ari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #328, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,030. For comparison, it was #402 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 476 US girls were named Ari, making it the 614th most common girls’ name of the year, down 79 places from #535 in 2024. That is 94 fewer than the 570 girls named Ari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #434, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 722. For comparison, it was #1,005 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ari in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 9 babies. In all, 28,254 US babies have been given the name, 27% of them girls and 73% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,802 babies named Ari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,646 US boys were named Ari; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,030. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,114 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ari ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #97 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880), Aric (7,631 babies since 1880), Arie (6,736 babies since 1880) and Arin (4,854 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ayari, Ayuri and Ahari are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ayari (440), Ayuri (59), Ahari (17), Ayori (15).
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 Ari in the open dataset we use.
Ari is listed as a nickname for Ariadne, Ariana, Arianna, Ariel.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 9 | #97 | #244 |
| New York | 120 | #159 | #237 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #220 | — |
| New Jersey | 41 | #232 | #258 |
| Maryland | 20 | #271 | #344 |
| Colorado | 22 | #294 | #267 |
| Florida | 65 | #295 | #398 |
| California | 124 | #297 | #362 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | #319 | #365 |
| Oregon | 12 | #328 | #271 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | #344 | #330 |
| Illinois | 28 | #375 | #328 |
| Arizona | 19 | #396 | #526 |
| Washington | 17 | #425 | #333 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #448 | #354 |
| Virginia | 17 | #452 | #388 |
| Ohio | 23 | #457 | #440 |
| Missouri | 13 | #460 | #491 |
| Iowa | 6 | #495 | #567 |
| Nevada | 5 | #518 | — |
| Georgia | 20 | #521 | #391 |
| Texas | 54 | #577 | #501 |
| Indiana | 11 | #584 | #436 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #592 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #602 | #425 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #671 | #664 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #675 | #674 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #700 | #575 |
| Utah | 5 | #708 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #781 | #507 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #788 | #483 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 476 | #614 | 808 | #393 |
| 2024 | 570 | #535 | 807 | #399 |
| 2023 | 666 | #462 | 974 | #342 |
| 2022 | 722 | #434 | 1,030 | #328 |
| 2021 | 658 | #476 | 957 | #343 |
| 2020 | 635 | #482 | 787 | #392 |
| 2019 | 505 | #600 | 860 | #371 |
| 2018 | 397 | #719 | 870 | #374 |
| 2017 | 341 | #803 | 802 | #398 |
| 2016 | 278 | #967 | 751 | #418 |
| 2015 | 268 | #1,005 | 771 | #402 |
| 2014 | 227 | #1,118 | 689 | #440 |
| 2013 | 228 | #1,082 | 704 | #420 |
| 2012 | 178 | #1,323 | 637 | #435 |
| 2011 | 135 | #1,600 | 510 | #508 |
| 2010 | 134 | #1,613 | 517 | #500 |
| 2009 | 130 | #1,705 | 516 | #525 |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,968 | 495 | #536 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,988 | 463 | #557 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,397 | 375 | #630 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,639 | 288 | #710 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,372 | 297 | #678 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,263 | 298 | #666 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,677 | 249 | #711 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,884 | 248 | #711 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,665 | 207 | #789 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,688 | 194 | #791 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,148 | 166 | #872 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,384 | 181 | #810 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,841 | 184 | #789 |
| 1995 | 18 | #5,239 | 166 | #834 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,451 | 170 | #811 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,684 | 153 | #856 |
| 1992 | 24 | #4,246 | 156 | #846 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,342 | 156 | #828 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,389 | 141 | #859 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,029 | 121 | #923 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,919 | 119 | #869 |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,260 | 115 | #870 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,981 | 125 | #807 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,096 | 126 | #793 |
| 1984 | 9 | #6,848 | 105 | #859 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,376 | 153 | #693 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,734 | 140 | #742 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,909 | 116 | #814 |
| 1980 | 14 | #4,989 | 147 | #720 |
| 1979 | 11 | #5,774 | 156 | #682 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,984 | 130 | #741 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,233 | 123 | #768 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,621 | 101 | #832 |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,878 | 105 | #811 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,949 | 128 | #724 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,708 | 116 | #745 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,332 | 111 | #752 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,654 | 166 | #637 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,118 | 123 | #742 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,541 | 93 | #799 |
| 1968 | — | — | 55 | #996 |
| 1967 | — | — | 47 | #1,073 |
| 1966 | — | — | 40 | #1,178 |
| 1965 | — | — | 46 | #1,095 |
| 1964 | — | — | 35 | #1,328 |
| 1963 | — | — | 32 | #1,375 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,323 | 35 | #1,314 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,623 | 52 | #1,078 |
| 1960 | — | — | 32 | #1,401 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,303 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,829 |
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).