Ariah

#636 for girls in 2025, 457 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,765
Given to girls 99.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
2016 · 1,046 births
Debut · girls
21 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
11,675
since 1991

Ariah over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Ariah has never cracked the top 300 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202020peak #310, 2016girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#636457
2024#585516#7,76510
2023#512593
2022#461688#12,3305
2021#433728
2020#400778#9,5547
2019#364869#8,2159
2018#343926#8,8198
2017#3231,011
2016#3101,046#9,6647
2015#515608#8,7448
2014#692409#8,7818
2013#715388#8,7898
2012#814329
2011#999252
2010#988256
2009#1,059241#10,9946
2008#1,137226
2007#1,370176
2006#1,324177
2005#1,265177
2004#1,614120
2003#1,534126
2002#1,82198
2001#1,97886
2000#1,99883
1999#2,30764
1998#2,08370
1997#2,82043
1996#3,42933
1995#4,67721
1994#3,44832
1993#7,03812
1992#6,00815
1991#4,65021
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First appearance
1991

The first year at least five girls were named Ariah! It came in at #4,650, and was given to 21 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 16 girls a year got the name.

See more about Ariah
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 51 spots since 2024 (#585#636)
  • 236 spots since 2020 (#400#636)
  • 121 spots since 2015 (#515#636)
  • Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2016 (#515#310)
  • Biggest drop: 73 spots in 2024 (#512#585)
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1991
  • Peaked 2016 at #310 (1,046 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 16 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,694
  • Highest: 1 in 1,694 girls born in 2016 were named Ariah (0.06%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,517 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 52.2% of all girls named Ariah (6,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s311#2,083 (1998)#4,051
2000s1,510#1,059 (2009)#1,510
2010s6,094#310 (2016)#606
2020s3,760#400 (2020)#505

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ariah in 2020

girls
#400
778 births · 1 in 2,078 girls
boys
#9,554
7 births · 1 in 246,582 boys

Top girls' names in 2020

  1. #1Olivia17,691
  2. #2Emma15,723
  3. #3Ava13,201
  4. #4Sophia13,105
  5. #5Charlotte13,100
  6. #6Amelia12,802
  7. #7Isabella12,226
  8. #8Mia11,269
  9. #9Evelyn9,517
  10. #10Harper8,849
  11. #400Ariah778

Top boys' names in 2020

  1. #1Liam19,865
  2. #2Noah18,464
  3. #3Oliver14,277
  4. #4Elijah13,238
  5. #5William12,676
  6. #6James12,390
  7. #7Benjamin12,264
  8. #8Lucas11,386
  9. #9Henry10,793
  10. #10Alexander10,268
  11. #9,554Ariah7
More about 2020

girls

1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 2,078 of them was named Ariah, which outranked 97.7% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ariah
  1. #397Kalani784
  2. #397Madeleine784
  3. #399Jessica780
  4. #400Ariah778
  5. #401Leighton777
  6. #402Makenna775
  7. #402Nylah775
Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. 1,492Avayah#2,428#936
  2. 950Denisse#1,802#852
  3. 818Jianna#1,668#850
  4. 609Capri#1,291#682
  5. 550Rosalia#1,287#737
Fallers
  1. 393Yaritza#813#1,206
  2. 271Seraphina#1,000#1,271
  3. 207Marissa#874#1,081
  4. 203Annabella#644#847
  5. 195Jayde#832#1,027

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 246,582 of them was named Ariah, which outranked 32.0% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ariah
  1. #8,739Zyeire8
  2. #8,739Zyhaire8
  3. #8,739Zylar8
  4. #9,554Ariah7
  5. #9,554Aadav7
  6. #9,554Aahir7
  7. #9,554Aalim7
  8. #10,605Aakil6
  9. #10,605Aamil6
  10. #10,605Aaran6

Tied with 1,050 names at #9,554; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2019
Risers
  1. 587Zyair#1,548#961
  2. 567Jaxtyn#1,152#585
  3. 539Jakobe#1,372#833
  4. 473Kylo#922#449
  5. 461Ander#1,085#624
Fallers
  1. 380Vivaan#875#1,255
  2. 282Alexzander#890#1,172
  3. 268Reyansh#806#1,074
  4. 266Javion#949#1,215
  5. 224Kenny#862#1,086

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2020