Arian
#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #965 for boys in 2025, 238 births
Given to boys 81.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2013 · 494 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,712since 1970
Arian 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,860 | 11 | #965 | 238 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 | #862 | 280 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #827 | 296 |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | #900 | 259 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 | #887 | 260 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #861 | 263 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 | #915 | 240 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | #872 | 250 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 | #843 | 262 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #750 | 324 |
| 2015 | #3,842 | 39 | #714 | 347 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #678 | 373 |
| 2013 | #3,267 | 49 | #538 | 494 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 | #652 | 365 |
| 2011 | #5,207 | 26 | #924 | 217 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 | #1,195 | 150 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 | #1,191 | 151 |
| 2008 | #4,647 | 32 | #1,334 | 129 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #1,332 | 127 |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | #1,350 | 120 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 | #1,411 | 104 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #1,491 | 90 |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | #1,282 | 110 |
| 2002 | #2,854 | 52 | #1,406 | 93 |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #1,265 | 105 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 | #1,300 | 99 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 | #1,642 | 63 |
| 1997 | #2,695 | 46 | #1,859 | 50 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 | #1,705 | 55 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 | #1,782 | 49 |
| 1994 | #2,877 | 41 | #2,041 | 40 |
| 1993 | #3,052 | 38 | #1,907 | 43 |
| 1992 | #3,267 | 34 | #1,914 | 42 |
| 1991 | #3,097 | 36 | #1,573 | 54 |
| 1990 | #3,022 | 37 | #1,615 | 51 |
| 1989 | #3,784 | 26 | #1,919 | 38 |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 | #2,035 | 31 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 | #1,974 | 31 |
| 1986 | #3,554 | 24 | #2,007 | 29 |
| 1985 | #3,328 | 26 | #2,071 | 27 |
| 1984 | #3,527 | 23 | #1,796 | 31 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 | #1,651 | 35 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | #1,999 | 27 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 | #1,865 | 30 |
| 1980 | #3,853 | 20 | #2,284 | 22 |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | #1,753 | 32 |
| 1978 | #3,196 | 24 | #2,068 | 23 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 | #1,670 | 32 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #2,177 | 21 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | #2,540 | 16 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 | #2,946 | 12 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 | #3,694 | 8 |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,761 | 11 | #3,521 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arian! It came in at #3,521, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1973, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.
See more about Arian
- 103 spots since 2024 (#862 → #965)
- 104 spots since 2020 (#861 → #965)
- 251 spots since 2015 (#714 → #965)
- Biggest jump: 272 spots in 2012 (#924 → #652)
- Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2014 (#538 → #678)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2013 at #538 (494 births)
- Births halved by 2019, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,829 boys born in 2013 were named Arian (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,177 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 45.0% of all boys named Arian (3,022) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1999, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 169 | #1,670 (1977) | #2,748 |
| 1980s | 301 | #1,651 (1983) | #1,960 |
| 1990s | 496 | #1,573 (1991) | #1,800 |
| 2000s | 1,128 | #1,191 (2009) | #1,336 |
| 2010s | 3,022 | #538 (2013) | #808 |
| 2020s | 1,596 | #827 (2023) | #884 |
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.
Arian 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 66,186 of them was named Arian, which outranked 73.4% 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).
- #3,246Tira27
- #3,246Vernita27
- #3,246Zainab27
- #3,328Arian26
- #3,328Aide26
- #3,328Aline26
- #3,328Allena26
- #3,419Agatha25
- #3,419Amal25
- #3,419Amberle25
Tied with 90 names at #3,328; 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 68,452 of them was named Arian, which outranked 72.7% 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).
- #2,019Torian28
- #2,019Wm28
- #2,019Yusef28
- #2,071Arian27
- #2,071Abe27
- #2,071Allison27
- #2,071Ankur27
- #2,116Akil26
- #2,116Alonza26
- #2,116Ashwin26
Tied with 44 names at #2,071; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.