Meaning not yet researched.
Arielle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 618 in 2025. Its best rank was #183 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #183 in 1991; #486 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arielle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#486 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #183.
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Arielle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 618 girls in 2025. Peak: #183 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 1,631 (1991).
In 2025, 618 US girls were named Arielle, making it the 486th most common girls’ name of the year, up 12 places from #498 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 614 girls named Arielle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #183, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,631. For comparison, it was #352 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arielle in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 7 babies. In all, 30,921 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 8,792 babies named Arielle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,602 US girls were named Arielle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,075. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,601 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arielle ranked highest in Rhode Island in 2025, at #187 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) and Aurielle (1,083 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aryelle, Arrielle and Airelle are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Arie.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aryelle (578), Arrielle (333), Airelle (233), Aerielle (207), Ariyelle (85), Aarielle (54), Airielle (44), Arelle (20), Areille (12), Aurelle (6), Arialle (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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island | 5 | #187 | — |
| New York | 57 | #295 | #206 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #307 | #431 |
| New Jersey | 22 | #364 | #311 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #377 | #373 |
| Florida | 48 | #384 | #199 |
| Maryland | 13 | #401 | #251 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #405 | — |
| North Carolina | 27 | #406 | #478 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #435 | #493 |
| Illinois | 24 | #442 | #464 |
| California | 75 | #443 | #260 |
| Alabama | 11 | #445 | #391 |
| Georgia | 25 | #454 | #339 |
| Michigan | 18 | #460 | #311 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #470 | #366 |
| Utah | 8 | #493 | — |
| Minnesota | 10 | #506 | #514 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #519 | #502 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #519 | #522 |
| Arizona | 13 | #521 | #261 |
| Nevada | 5 | #522 | #260 |
| Texas | 60 | #532 | #331 |
| Missouri | 10 | #560 | #685 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #578 | — |
| Indiana | 10 | #614 | #479 |
| Ohio | 16 | #624 | #400 |
| Washington | 10 | #624 | #459 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #699 | #345 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #712 | #488 |
| Virginia | 9 | #765 | #360 |
| Colorado | 5 | #924 | #447 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 618 | #486 | — | — |
| 2024 | 614 | #498 | — | — |
| 2023 | 730 | #420 | — | — |
| 2022 | 815 | #385 | 5 | #12,498 |
| 2021 | 855 | #360 | — | — |
| 2020 | 892 | #346 | 6 | #10,703 |
| 2019 | 972 | #330 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,011 | #323 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,020 | #320 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,075 | #303 | — | — |
| 2015 | 932 | #352 | — | — |
| 2014 | 987 | #340 | — | — |
| 2013 | 855 | #366 | — | — |
| 2012 | 762 | #410 | — | — |
| 2011 | 587 | #501 | — | — |
| 2010 | 591 | #506 | — | — |
| 2009 | 548 | #558 | — | — |
| 2008 | 493 | #623 | — | — |
| 2007 | 493 | #610 | — | — |
| 2006 | 502 | #583 | — | — |
| 2005 | 451 | #622 | — | — |
| 2004 | 427 | #639 | — | — |
| 2003 | 476 | #579 | — | — |
| 2002 | 453 | #576 | — | — |
| 2001 | 452 | #570 | — | — |
| 2000 | 479 | #544 | — | — |
| 1999 | 527 | #493 | — | — |
| 1998 | 612 | #434 | — | — |
| 1997 | 669 | #389 | — | — |
| 1996 | 605 | #419 | — | — |
| 1995 | 689 | #382 | — | — |
| 1994 | 598 | #418 | — | — |
| 1993 | 620 | #403 | — | — |
| 1992 | 974 | #283 | 6 | #7,480 |
| 1991 | 1,631 | #183 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,569 | #185 | 6 | #7,233 |
| 1989 | 1,530 | #185 | 21 | #2,913 |
| 1988 | 653 | #368 | — | — |
| 1987 | 341 | #581 | — | — |
| 1986 | 318 | #604 | 7 | #5,368 |
| 1985 | 306 | #618 | — | — |
| 1984 | 299 | #599 | — | — |
| 1983 | 249 | #682 | — | — |
| 1982 | 161 | #929 | — | — |
| 1981 | 100 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,219 | — | — |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,393 | — | — |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,871 | — | — |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,702 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,999 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,319 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,544 | — | — |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,512 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,326 | — | — |
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).