Meaning not yet researched.
Arian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 238 in 2025. Its best rank was #538 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #538 in 2013; #965 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Arian in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#965 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #538.
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Arian: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 238 boys in 2025. Peak: #538 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 494 (2013).
In 2025, 238 US boys were named Arian, making it the 965th most common boys’ name of the year, down 103 places from #862 in 2024. That is 42 fewer than the 280 boys named Arian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #538, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 494. For comparison, it was #714 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Arian, making it the 8,928th most common girls’ name of the year, down 911 places from #8,017 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 13 girls named Arian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,439, reached in 1999. The most girls given the name in a single year was 68, in 2009. For comparison, it was #3,847 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arian in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 8,290 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,357 babies named Arian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,672 US boys were named Arian; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 324. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,177 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arian ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #567 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880), Arin (4,854 babies since 1880), Arjan (1,001 babies since 1880) and Aron (21,590 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arihaan, Ariene and Ariano are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arihaan (98), Ariene (44), Ariano (39), Arriane (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 Arian in the open dataset we use.
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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 56 | #567 | #341 |
| Florida | 27 | #622 | #675 |
| Arizona | 10 | #640 | #672 |
| New York | 20 | #717 | #650 |
| California | 37 | #720 | #657 |
| Colorado | 6 | #762 | #790 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #793 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #879 | #673 |
| Indiana | 5 | #955 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #994 | #915 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,029 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,142 | #710 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,928 | 238 | #965 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,017 | 280 | #862 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,194 | 296 | #827 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,316 | 259 | #900 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,103 | 260 | #887 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,348 | 263 | #861 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,173 | 240 | #915 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,021 | 250 | #872 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,709 | 262 | #843 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,932 | 324 | #750 |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,847 | 347 | #714 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,492 | 373 | #678 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,273 | 494 | #538 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,904 | 365 | #652 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,226 | 217 | #924 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,623 | 150 | #1,195 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,679 | 151 | #1,193 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,656 | 129 | #1,334 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,127 | 127 | #1,332 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,967 | 120 | #1,351 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,882 | 104 | #1,412 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,399 | 90 | #1,491 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,603 | 110 | #1,284 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,859 | 93 | #1,407 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,420 | 105 | #1,265 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,980 | 99 | #1,300 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,439 | 49 | #1,966 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,934 | 63 | #1,642 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,699 | 50 | #1,861 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,511 | 55 | #1,707 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,489 | 49 | #1,782 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,881 | 40 | #2,044 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,055 | 43 | #1,909 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,271 | 42 | #1,918 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,100 | 54 | #1,573 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,023 | 51 | #1,616 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,790 | 38 | #1,922 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,326 | 31 | #2,036 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,672 | 31 | #1,975 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,559 | 29 | #2,011 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,332 | 27 | #2,074 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,533 | 31 | #1,798 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,901 | 35 | #1,654 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,902 | 27 | #2,000 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,276 | 30 | #1,865 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,863 | 22 | #2,285 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,057 | 32 | #1,753 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,204 | 23 | #2,070 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,913 | 32 | #1,671 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,077 | 21 | #2,180 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,179 | 16 | #2,544 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,030 | 12 | #2,957 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,983 | 8 | #3,721 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,168 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,552 | 7 | #3,989 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,773 | 8 | #3,537 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,543 | — | — |
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).