Meaning not yet researched.
Ariyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 40 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,525 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,525 in 2021; #3,040 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Ariyan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,040 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #2,525.
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Ariyan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 40 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,525 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 52 (2021).
In 2025, 40 US boys were named Ariyan, making it the 3,040th most common boys’ name of the year, down 248 places from #2,792 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 46 boys named Ariyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,525, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 52. For comparison, it was #3,991 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Ariyan, making it the 15,186th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,962 places from #11,224 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 8 girls named Ariyan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,309, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #6,753 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ariyan in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1993 with 8 babies. In all, 998 US babies have been given the name, 40% of them girls and 60% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 395 babies named Ariyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 392 US boys were named Ariyan; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 42,702 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880), Arian (8,290 babies since 1880), Arin (4,854 babies since 1880) and Ariane (3,782 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Ariyan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,186 | 40 | #3,040 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,224 | 46 | #2,792 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,534 | 33 | #3,477 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,336 | 36 | #3,283 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,677 | 52 | #2,525 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,601 | 32 | #3,426 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,186 | 43 | #2,857 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,897 | 40 | #2,948 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,852 | 43 | #2,803 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,909 | 27 | #3,887 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,753 | 26 | #3,991 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,692 | 23 | #4,269 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,084 | 27 | #3,760 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,177 | 22 | #4,404 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,448 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,532 | 13 | #6,375 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,877 | 14 | #6,115 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,900 | 10 | #7,736 |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,744 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,549 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,965 | 6 | #10,224 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,743 | 12 | #6,157 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,089 | 7 | #8,718 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,728 | 7 | #8,522 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,246 | 5 | #10,673 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,839 | — | — |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 1998 | 61 | #2,309 | 9 | #6,358 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,957 | — | — |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,917 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,910 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,627 | — | — |
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).