Ari
#614 for girls in 2025, 476 births · #393 for boys in 2025, 808 births
Given to boys 72.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 1,030 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 20,592since 1958
Ari over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #614 | 476 | #393 | 808 |
| 2024 | #535 | 570 | #399 | 807 |
| 2023 | #461 | 666 | #342 | 974 |
| 2022 | #434 | 722 | #328 | 1,030 |
| 2021 | #476 | 658 | #343 | 957 |
| 2020 | #482 | 635 | #392 | 787 |
| 2019 | #600 | 505 | #371 | 860 |
| 2018 | #719 | 397 | #374 | 870 |
| 2017 | #803 | 341 | #398 | 802 |
| 2016 | #967 | 278 | #418 | 751 |
| 2015 | #1,005 | 268 | #402 | 771 |
| 2014 | #1,118 | 227 | #440 | 689 |
| 2013 | #1,082 | 228 | #420 | 704 |
| 2012 | #1,322 | 178 | #435 | 637 |
| 2011 | #1,598 | 135 | #508 | 510 |
| 2010 | #1,611 | 134 | #500 | 517 |
| 2009 | #1,704 | 130 | #525 | 516 |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 | #536 | 495 |
| 2007 | #1,988 | 103 | #556 | 463 |
| 2006 | #2,396 | 78 | #630 | 375 |
| 2005 | #2,636 | 64 | #710 | 288 |
| 2004 | #2,370 | 72 | #677 | 297 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 | #666 | 298 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | #711 | 249 |
| 2001 | #2,881 | 50 | #711 | 248 |
| 2000 | #4,649 | 25 | #789 | 207 |
| 1999 | #5,661 | 18 | #790 | 194 |
| 1998 | #5,123 | 20 | #871 | 166 |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 24 | #810 | 181 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 | #789 | 184 |
| 1995 | #5,221 | 18 | #833 | 166 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | #810 | 170 |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 | #856 | 153 |
| 1992 | #4,236 | 24 | #844 | 156 |
| 1991 | #4,329 | 23 | #827 | 156 |
| 1990 | #4,380 | 22 | #859 | 141 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 | #923 | 121 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #869 | 119 |
| 1987 | #3,257 | 28 | #870 | 115 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 | #807 | 125 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #792 | 126 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #859 | 105 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #693 | 153 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | #741 | 140 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #813 | 116 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #718 | 147 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #682 | 156 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 | #741 | 130 |
| 1977 | #5,213 | 12 | #767 | 123 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | #832 | 101 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 | #811 | 105 |
| 1974 | #6,900 | 7 | #724 | 128 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 | #745 | 116 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #752 | 111 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | #637 | 166 |
| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | #742 | 123 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #799 | 93 |
| 1968 | — | #996 | 55 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,071 | 47 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,178 | 40 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,094 | 46 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,327 | 35 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,375 | 32 | |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 | #1,311 | 35 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | #1,078 | 52 |
| 1960 | — | #1,400 | 32 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,295 | 13 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,818 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ari! It came in at #2,818, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1959, when fewer than 14 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ari
- 6 spots since 2024 (#399 → #393)
- 1 spot since 2020 (#392 → #393)
- 9 spots since 2015 (#402 → #393)
- Biggest jump: 197 spots in 1969 (#996 → #799)
- Biggest drop: 166 spots in 1984 (#693 → #859)
- Debuted 1958
- Peaked 2022 at #328 (1,030 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 58 yrs · run 1968–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,695 boys born in 2022 were named Ari (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,114 boys born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 34.5% of all boys named Ari (7,111) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 22 | #2,295 (1959) | #2,557 |
| 1960s | 467 | #799 (1969) | #1,163 |
| 1970s | 1,259 | #637 (1971) | #743 |
| 1980s | 1,267 | #693 (1983) | #809 |
| 1990s | 1,667 | #789 (1996) | #829 |
| 2000s | 3,436 | #525 (2009) | #651 |
| 2010s | 7,111 | #371 (2019) | #427 |
| 2020s | 5,363 | #328 (2022) | #366 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ari in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 122,916 of them was named Ari, which outranked 59.4% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,860Young15
- #4,860Zenia15
- #4,860Zulay15
- #5,077Ari14
- #5,077Abigayle14
- #5,077Adelia14
- #5,077Adrena14
- #5,348Abeer13
- #5,348Adrain13
- #5,348Adreana13
Tied with 270 names at #5,077; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 14,668 of them was named Ari, which outranked 89.6% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).