In 2025, 6,130 US girls were named Aria, making it the 26th most common girls’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 174 more than the 5,956 girls named Aria in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #19, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 7,437. For comparison, it was #29 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aria in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 96,373 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 52,455 babies named Aria.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 65,733 US girls were named Aria; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 7,437. In 2025 that was about 1 in 262 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aria ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #9 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 51 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariana (120,580 babies since 1880), Arya (31,871 babies since 1880), Ara (4,866 babies since 1880) and Ria (4,115 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arrie, Aurea and Ary are summarised on this page.