Meaning not yet researched.
Ariel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 851 in 2025. Its best rank was #66 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #66 in 1991; #356 in 2025. About 61% of babies named Ariel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#356 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #66.
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Ariel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 851 girls in 2025. Peak: #66 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 5,411 (1991).
In 2025, 851 US girls were named Ariel, making it the 356th most common girls’ name of the year, down 56 places from #300 in 2024. That is 204 fewer than the 1,055 girls named Ariel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #66, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 5,411. For comparison, it was #137 in 2015 and #3,677 in 1950.
In 2025, 533 US boys were named Ariel, making it the 558th most common boys’ name of the year, down 49 places from #509 in 2024. That is 65 fewer than the 598 boys named Ariel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #360, reached in 1991. That year also had the most boys given the name: 666. For comparison, it was #602 in 2015 and #3,037 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariel in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 5 babies. In all, 100,665 US babies have been given the name, 78% of them girls and 22% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 32,804 babies named Ariel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,912 US girls were named Ariel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 2,199. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,889 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariel ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #162 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adriel (34,751 babies since 1880), Arielle (30,921 babies since 1880), Ari (28,254 babies since 1880) and Ariella (22,376 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arial, Auriel and Ariell are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ari.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Polish and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arial (1,197), Auriel (981), Ariell (900), Aeriel (774), Aryel (626), Ariele (583), Arieal (418), Arriel (324), Arel (312), Areil (299), Airel (277), Aurel (236), 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 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 9 | #162 | #91 |
| California | 178 | #185 | #77 |
| Arizona | 32 | #213 | #102 |
| Nevada | 12 | #218 | #46 |
| Maryland | 19 | #271 | #175 |
| Texas | 122 | #283 | #89 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #298 | #173 |
| New York | 50 | #335 | #140 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #338 | #133 |
| Georgia | 31 | #351 | #143 |
| Idaho | 6 | #356 | #371 |
| Oregon | 10 | #360 | #387 |
| Missouri | 15 | #392 | #199 |
| Florida | 46 | #404 | #110 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #427 | #326 |
| Washington | 16 | #431 | #175 |
| Virginia | 18 | #437 | #170 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #443 | #125 |
| Tennessee | 17 | #454 | #136 |
| Michigan | 18 | #459 | #143 |
| Colorado | 12 | #459 | #156 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #469 | #256 |
| Ohio | 22 | #486 | #197 |
| Indiana | 14 | #490 | #214 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #495 | #154 |
| Illinois | 19 | #518 | #190 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #525 | #290 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #526 | #100 |
| New Jersey | 13 | #578 | #199 |
| Alabama | 8 | #580 | #85 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #605 | #255 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #626 | #133 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #689 | #257 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 851 | #356 | 533 | #558 |
| 2024 | 1,055 | #300 | 598 | #509 |
| 2023 | 1,096 | #287 | 566 | #521 |
| 2022 | 1,295 | #236 | 519 | #569 |
| 2021 | 1,351 | #220 | 507 | #557 |
| 2020 | 1,472 | #200 | 497 | #565 |
| 2019 | 1,685 | #172 | 511 | #551 |
| 2018 | 1,832 | #154 | 470 | #584 |
| 2017 | 2,076 | #142 | 600 | #488 |
| 2016 | 2,199 | #140 | 601 | #499 |
| 2015 | 2,358 | #137 | 455 | #602 |
| 2014 | 2,445 | #132 | 319 | #743 |
| 2013 | 2,140 | #145 | 298 | #759 |
| 2012 | 1,742 | #181 | 296 | #769 |
| 2011 | 1,438 | #220 | 379 | #623 |
| 2010 | 1,462 | #213 | 413 | #602 |
| 2009 | 1,577 | #205 | 475 | #556 |
| 2008 | 1,553 | #217 | 455 | #568 |
| 2007 | 1,784 | #188 | 521 | #508 |
| 2006 | 1,734 | #202 | 573 | #468 |
| 2005 | 1,568 | #222 | 438 | #547 |
| 2004 | 1,546 | #219 | 416 | #553 |
| 2003 | 1,548 | #213 | 387 | #572 |
| 2002 | 1,548 | #215 | 441 | #514 |
| 2001 | 1,654 | #197 | 405 | #538 |
| 2000 | 1,753 | #184 | 384 | #548 |
| 1999 | 1,834 | #171 | 422 | #505 |
| 1998 | 2,150 | #147 | 467 | #474 |
| 1997 | 2,212 | #145 | 442 | #484 |
| 1996 | 1,924 | #163 | 469 | #462 |
| 1995 | 2,149 | #151 | 447 | #484 |
| 1994 | 2,187 | #146 | 444 | #480 |
| 1993 | 2,707 | #121 | 441 | #478 |
| 1992 | 3,961 | #87 | 456 | #472 |
| 1991 | 5,411 | #66 | 666 | #360 |
| 1990 | 3,607 | #94 | 408 | #482 |
| 1989 | 1,284 | #209 | 383 | #489 |
| 1988 | 911 | #277 | 345 | #493 |
| 1987 | 626 | #373 | 294 | #521 |
| 1986 | 653 | #364 | 299 | #509 |
| 1985 | 600 | #379 | 291 | #513 |
| 1984 | 636 | #362 | 281 | #504 |
| 1983 | 650 | #348 | 315 | #471 |
| 1982 | 584 | #394 | 294 | #497 |
| 1981 | 228 | #722 | 236 | #553 |
| 1980 | 181 | #853 | 239 | #554 |
| 1979 | 154 | #951 | 216 | #581 |
| 1978 | 162 | #895 | 223 | #561 |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,176 | 157 | #675 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,587 | 177 | #614 |
| 1975 | 60 | #1,628 | 175 | #616 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,216 | 155 | #647 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,940 | 106 | #772 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,357 | 100 | #797 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,742 | 87 | #873 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,124 | 83 | #885 |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,354 | 82 | #846 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,364 | 82 | #818 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,668 | 60 | #931 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,209 | 28 | #1,451 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,966 | 43 | #1,145 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,251 | 34 | #1,351 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,558 | 29 | #1,456 |
| 1962 | — | — | 27 | #1,517 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,023 | 35 | #1,351 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,703 | 25 | #1,621 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,293 | 15 | #2,116 |
| 1958 | — | — | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,707 | 24 | #1,634 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,993 | 18 | #1,888 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,521 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,297 | 6 | #3,466 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,699 | 9 | #2,716 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,143 | 12 | #2,255 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,402 | 12 | #2,254 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,677 | 7 | #3,037 |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,910 | 6 | #3,320 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,279 | 10 | #2,448 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,039 | 7 | #2,930 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,403 | 10 | #2,248 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,077 | 7 | #2,875 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,459 | 5 | #3,591 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,674 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,446 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,589 | 13 | #1,984 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,161 | 9 | #2,486 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,171 | 8 | #2,726 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,830 | 7 | #2,988 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,294 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,990 | 8 | #2,878 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,364 | 8 | #3,038 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,314 | 11 | #2,459 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,768 | 9 | #2,857 |
| 1927 | 12 | #2,710 | 7 | #3,466 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,788 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,984 | 8 | #3,276 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,140 | 13 | #2,338 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,192 | 12 | #2,495 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,291 | 10 | #2,815 |
| 1920 | 22 | #1,822 | 10 | #2,772 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,602 | 8 | #3,116 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,209 | 9 | #2,740 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,408 | 7 | #3,193 |
| 1915 | 23 | #1,524 | 7 | #3,100 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,907 | 9 | #2,280 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,311 | 5 | #2,840 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,247 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,952 | — | — |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,470 | — | — |
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).