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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,374 of them was named Ari, which outranked 94.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 2,527 of them was named Ari, which outranked 97.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.