Meaning not yet researched.
Ariella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,756 in 2025. Its best rank was #154 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #154 in 2020; #174 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ariella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#174 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #154.
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Ariella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,756 girls in 2025. Peak: #154 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 1,802 (2020).
In 2025, 1,756 US girls were named Ariella, making it the 174th most common girls’ name of the year, up 21 places from #195 in 2024. That is 190 more than the 1,566 girls named Ariella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #154, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,802. For comparison, it was #400 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariella in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 6 babies. In all, 22,376 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,082 babies named Ariella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,758 US girls were named Ariella; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 1,802. In 2025 that was about 1 in 915 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariella ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #38 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880), Ariela (3,841 babies since 1880) and Auriella (653 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arella, Aryella and Ariellah 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: Arella (486), Aryella (356), Ariellah (199), Arilla (175), Aurilla (153), Arriella (56), Aeriella (54), Auriela (38), Ariyella (38), Aurella (36), Arrilla (23), Aryela (22), 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.
No nicknames listed for Ariella 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 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 24 | #38 | #389 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | #59 | — |
| New Jersey | 78 | #90 | #245 |
| New York | 147 | #98 | #146 |
| Texas | 283 | #99 | #487 |
| Nevada | 20 | #110 | #211 |
| California | 267 | #111 | #486 |
| Arizona | 53 | #117 | #412 |
| Florida | 146 | #118 | #215 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #122 | — |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #152 | — |
| Iowa | 18 | #175 | #418 |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #183 | #261 |
| Colorado | 31 | #192 | #412 |
| Washington | 37 | #196 | #458 |
| Maryland | 26 | #197 | #295 |
| Michigan | 45 | #199 | #461 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #206 | #675 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #206 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #212 | — |
| Virginia | 38 | #217 | #502 |
| Oregon | 16 | #226 | #590 |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #235 | #279 |
| Ohio | 46 | #244 | #542 |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #254 | #395 |
| Illinois | 41 | #258 | #423 |
| Minnesota | 21 | #263 | #513 |
| Kansas | 11 | #290 | #465 |
| Missouri | 20 | #299 | #684 |
| North Carolina | 35 | #311 | #825 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #317 | #303 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #335 | #769 |
| Indiana | 20 | #346 | #532 |
| Georgia | 31 | #352 | #510 |
| Utah | 12 | #364 | — |
| Kentucky | 12 | #368 | — |
| Tennessee | 21 | #379 | #553 |
| Idaho | 5 | #411 | #372 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #434 | — |
| Alabama | 11 | #444 | #554 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #531 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,756 | #174 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,566 | #195 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,619 | #184 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,633 | #183 | 5 | #12,497 |
| 2021 | 1,701 | #171 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,802 | #154 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,422 | #216 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,171 | #283 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,104 | #293 | — | — |
| 2016 | 984 | #338 | — | — |
| 2015 | 813 | #400 | — | — |
| 2014 | 846 | #386 | — | — |
| 2013 | 710 | #429 | — | — |
| 2012 | 553 | #543 | — | — |
| 2011 | 455 | #628 | — | — |
| 2010 | 385 | #728 | — | — |
| 2009 | 324 | #860 | — | — |
| 2008 | 300 | #913 | — | — |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,414 | — | — |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 2000 | 122 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,497 | — | — |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1990 | 134 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,787 | — | — |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,752 | — | — |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,911 | — | — |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,290 | — | — |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,974 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,532 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,510 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,008 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,078 | — | — |
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).