Meaning not yet researched.
Ariela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 177 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,141 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,141 in 2024; #1,263 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ariela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,263 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,141.
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Ariela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 177 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,141 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 212 (2024).
In 2025, 177 US girls were named Ariela, making it the 1,263rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 122 places from #1,141 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 212 girls named Ariela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,141, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 212. For comparison, it was #1,455 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariela in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 3,841 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,345 babies named Ariela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,671 US girls were named Ariela; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 212. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,081 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariela ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #637 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880), Ariella (22,376 babies since 1880) and Auriella (653 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arayla and Aryla 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: Arayla (168), Aryla (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 Ariela 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 10 | #637 | #858 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #771 | — |
| Texas | 35 | #843 | #1,151 |
| Florida | 16 | #964 | #1,060 |
| California | 28 | #972 | #1,256 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,121 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,241 | #1,022 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,261 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,465 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2022 | 185 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 2021 | 155 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,597 | — | — |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2015 | 158 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,083 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,296 | — | — |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,095 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,766 | — | — |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,333 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,437 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,392 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,175 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,638 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,419 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,370 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,440 | — | — |
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).