In 2025, 476 US girls were named Ariya, making it the 615th most common girls’ name of the year, down 58 places from #557 in 2024. That is 68 fewer than the 544 girls named Ariya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #519, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 599. For comparison, it was #693 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariya in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 5 babies. In all, 7,400 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,519 babies named Ariya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,214 US girls were named Ariya; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 599. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,377 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ariya ranked highest in Delaware in 2025, at #176 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aria (96,373 babies since 1880), Arya (31,871 babies since 1880), Ari (28,254 babies since 1880) and Ariah (11,751 babies since 1880).