Unisex name · since 2014
Aari
Aari has 77 recorded births since 2014 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,128 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #6,749 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 77
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
77 babies have been named Aari since 2014, making it today's #6749 unisex name.
Aari has 77 recorded births among boys since 2014, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #6749 as of the latest data, more common than 52% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #19,128 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #6,749 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 77 born since 2014
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aari ranks #19,128 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #6,749 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 77 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,128 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #6,749 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 77
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Aari's 77 recorded births place it above 57.75% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Aari compares
77 22nd percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Aari's all-time total is 79% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Aari | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 77 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 13 | 34 | 22,252 |
Aari's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Aari's full recorded timeline at 2021, 69% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 31% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2014, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Aari popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Aari popularity over time - girls
30 total births recorded since 2015 (Aari as girls' name)
Aari by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (60 births, 78% of the file).
2020s was Aari's strongest decade.
60 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 78% of all-time use.
Aari births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 17
2010s
17 births
- 2020s
2020s
60 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 60 births (78% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aari draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.