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.
Where Arian is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Connecticut#458 · 1 in 2,776
- Texas#474 · 1 in 2,690
- Arizona#494 · 1 in 2,849
- New Jersey#568 · 1 in 3,652
- Pennsylvania#684 · 1 in 5,206
Best ever in a state: #223 in Texas, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | #458 | 5 | 1 in 2,776 |
| Texas | #474 | 65 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Arizona | #494 | 12 | 1 in 2,849 |
| New Jersey | #568 | 11 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Pennsylvania | #684 | 11 | 1 in 5,206 |
| New York | #760 | 17 | 1 in 5,632 |
| California | #769 | 33 | 1 in 6,258 |
| Florida | #805 | 16 | 1 in 5,990 |
| Illinois | #824 | 10 | 1 in 5,967 |
| Virginia | #1,008 | 5 | 1 in 8,147 |
| Ohio | #1,215 | 5 | 1 in 11,462 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 65,426 of them was named Arian, which outranked 72.4% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,889Wrenlee27
- #4,889Yaneth27
- #4,889Zaia27
- #5,007Arian26
- #5,007Aariah26
- #5,007Abree26
- #5,007Adalin26
- #5,152Aamira25
- #5,152Abigaelle25
- #5,152Aelin25
Tied with 144 names at #5,007; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 7,265 of them was named Arian, which outranked 93.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).