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Ariana: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,219 in 2025. Its best rank was #37 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #37 in 2014; #128 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ariana in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#128 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #37.
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Ariana: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,219 girls in 2025. Peak: #37 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 5,504 (2014).
In 2025, 2,219 US girls were named Ariana, making it the 128th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #102 in 2024. That is 362 fewer than the 2,581 girls named Ariana in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #37, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,504. For comparison, it was #46 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariana in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 5 babies. In all, 120,580 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 41,374 babies named Ariana.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 32,454 US girls were named Ariana; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,609. In 2025 that was about 1 in 724 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariana ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #66 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Arianna (104,225 babies since 1880), Adriana (96,796 babies since 1880), Aria (96,373 babies since 1880) and Aryana (7,329 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ariona, Arieana and Aurianna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ari.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ariona (949), Arieana (791), Aurianna (723), Auriana (714), Areanna (645), Airiana (577), Airianna (543), Araina (525), Arena (494), Aariana (492), Areana (434), Aeriana (409), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 12 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 55 | #66 | #43 |
| California | 410 | #67 | #31 |
| New Mexico | 17 | #71 | #20 |
| Texas | 339 | #74 | #30 |
| Nevada | 27 | #78 | #21 |
| New Jersey | 80 | #88 | #33 |
| Florida | 157 | #107 | #38 |
| New York | 137 | #111 | #30 |
| Arizona | 56 | #113 | #30 |
| Virginia | 59 | #125 | #55 |
| Mississippi | 19 | #126 | #79 |
| Oregon | 26 | #129 | #88 |
| South Carolina | 34 | #131 | #74 |
| Washington | 50 | #138 | #62 |
| Colorado | 39 | #147 | #76 |
| Illinois | 65 | #151 | #37 |
| Massachusetts | 37 | #154 | #79 |
| Georgia | 62 | #162 | #56 |
| Kansas | 20 | #165 | #64 |
| Oklahoma | 23 | #167 | #90 |
| North Carolina | 60 | #172 | #62 |
| Delaware | 5 | #175 | #81 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #183 | #129 |
| Wisconsin | 29 | #190 | #118 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #192 | #32 |
| Tennessee | 39 | #195 | #81 |
| Indiana | 35 | #198 | #95 |
| Kentucky | 23 | #204 | #96 |
| Utah | 22 | #214 | #105 |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | #216 | #67 |
| Michigan | 39 | #228 | #91 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #251 | #102 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #256 | #116 |
| Alabama | 18 | #267 | #96 |
| Iowa | 12 | #276 | #96 |
| Ohio | 39 | #280 | #96 |
| Missouri | 21 | #290 | #140 |
| Idaho | 7 | #313 | #72 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #380 | #66 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,219 | #128 | — | — |
| 2024 | 2,581 | #102 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,720 | #97 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,854 | #90 | 9 | #8,362 |
| 2021 | 2,983 | #88 | — | — |
| 2020 | 3,175 | #79 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,684 | #69 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,739 | #68 | 5 | #12,304 |
| 2017 | 3,890 | #67 | 5 | #12,409 |
| 2016 | 4,609 | #54 | 5 | #12,335 |
| 2015 | 4,973 | #46 | 7 | #9,647 |
| 2014 | 5,504 | #37 | 10 | #7,591 |
| 2013 | 4,422 | #54 | — | — |
| 2012 | 3,588 | #74 | — | — |
| 2011 | 3,456 | #84 | — | — |
| 2010 | 3,477 | #84 | — | — |
| 2009 | 3,701 | #82 | 7 | #9,941 |
| 2008 | 3,916 | #81 | 6 | #11,159 |
| 2007 | 4,326 | #73 | 11 | #7,131 |
| 2006 | 4,234 | #78 | 9 | #8,048 |
| 2005 | 3,981 | #82 | 5 | #11,593 |
| 2004 | 3,996 | #79 | 14 | #5,516 |
| 2003 | 3,834 | #85 | — | — |
| 2002 | 3,492 | #93 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,377 | #92 | 6 | #9,329 |
| 2000 | 3,153 | #109 | 5 | #10,474 |
| 1999 | 2,529 | #130 | 5 | #10,022 |
| 1998 | 2,424 | #137 | 8 | #6,889 |
| 1997 | 2,319 | #138 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,044 | #156 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,948 | #163 | 7 | #7,033 |
| 1994 | 1,874 | #166 | 5 | #8,872 |
| 1993 | 1,534 | #190 | 5 | #8,766 |
| 1992 | 1,371 | #207 | 5 | #8,511 |
| 1991 | 1,562 | #192 | 6 | #7,331 |
| 1990 | 1,259 | #228 | 8 | #5,866 |
| 1989 | 967 | #278 | 18 | #3,211 |
| 1988 | 638 | #377 | 5 | #7,354 |
| 1987 | 523 | #429 | — | — |
| 1986 | 419 | #502 | 7 | #5,367 |
| 1985 | 369 | #539 | 6 | #5,825 |
| 1984 | 363 | #529 | — | — |
| 1983 | 380 | #509 | — | — |
| 1982 | 367 | #533 | 6 | #5,672 |
| 1981 | 348 | #540 | 5 | #6,335 |
| 1980 | 311 | #598 | — | — |
| 1979 | 136 | #1,030 | — | — |
| 1978 | 153 | #924 | — | — |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,502 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,325 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,427 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,127 | — | — |
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).