Meaning not yet researched.
Ariah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 457 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #311 in 2016; #636 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ariah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#636 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #311.
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Ariah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 457 girls in 2025. Peak: #311 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 1,046 (2016).
In 2025, 457 US girls were named Ariah, making it the 636th most common girls’ name of the year, down 51 places from #585 in 2024. That is 59 fewer than the 516 girls named Ariah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #311, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,046. For comparison, it was #515 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 21 babies. In all, 11,751 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 6,142 babies named Ariah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,612 US girls were named Ariah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,046. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,517 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #115 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aria (96,373 babies since 1880), Arya (31,871 babies since 1880), Ari (28,254 babies since 1880) and Ariyah (11,120 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arriyah, Ahriyah and Auriyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Arriyah (204), Ahriyah (162), Auriyah (73), Ariayah (17), Ariyiah (10), Ariyeh (6), Arieyah (6), Ariyaah (5), Aaryiah (5), Ariiyah (5).
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 Ariah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 24 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 12 | #115 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #359 | #425 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #402 | #426 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #404 | — |
| Maryland | 12 | #430 | #311 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #433 | #536 |
| Alabama | 11 | #443 | #553 |
| Florida | 35 | #518 | #450 |
| Arizona | 13 | #520 | #306 |
| Nevada | 5 | #521 | — |
| Virginia | 15 | #522 | #678 |
| Ohio | 19 | #536 | #467 |
| Missouri | 10 | #559 | #397 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #566 | — |
| Texas | 55 | #571 | #486 |
| Illinois | 16 | #600 | #638 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #606 | #520 |
| Georgia | 17 | #617 | #509 |
| Indiana | 9 | #657 | #373 |
| New York | 25 | #659 | #574 |
| California | 46 | #676 | #531 |
| Washington | 9 | #689 | #842 |
| Colorado | 7 | #716 | #339 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #723 | #1,202 |
| Michigan | 8 | #868 | #460 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #900 | #682 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,023 | #521 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 457 | #636 | — | — |
| 2024 | 516 | #585 | 10 | #7,814 |
| 2023 | 593 | #512 | — | — |
| 2022 | 688 | #461 | 5 | #12,496 |
| 2021 | 728 | #433 | — | — |
| 2020 | 778 | #400 | 7 | #9,641 |
| 2019 | 869 | #364 | 9 | #8,257 |
| 2018 | 926 | #343 | 8 | #8,884 |
| 2017 | 1,011 | #323 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,046 | #311 | 7 | #9,731 |
| 2015 | 608 | #515 | 8 | #8,802 |
| 2014 | 409 | #692 | 8 | #8,843 |
| 2013 | 388 | #715 | 8 | #8,856 |
| 2012 | 329 | #814 | — | — |
| 2011 | 252 | #999 | — | — |
| 2010 | 256 | #989 | — | — |
| 2009 | 241 | #1,059 | 6 | #11,099 |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,373 | — | — |
| 2006 | 177 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,824 | — | — |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,684 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,071 | — | — |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,039 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,665 | — | — |
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).