Aranza
Aranza was given to 144 girls in 2025, #1,486 among girls’ names; 3,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,370 Americans named Aranza and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aranza by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aranza mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Aranza is “a female given name transferred from the place name”
Shortened from Aránzazu.
/aˈɾanθa/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aranza?
#1,486 among girls’ names, 2025
Aranza fell from #933 in 2015 to #1,486 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.16 to 0.09 per 1,000.
476 babies in 2014, the peak
Aranza peaked in 2014, when 476 girls were given it, #611 among girls’ names. The 144 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,486 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,458 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,446 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,256 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 151 | #1,426 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 213 | #1,134 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 245 | #1,048 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 267 | #978 | 0.15 |
| 2016 | 307 | #905 | 0.17 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 290 | #933 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 476 | #611 | 0.27 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,248 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,223 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,816 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,621 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,025 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,531 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,250 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,759 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,446 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,829 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,804 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,733 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,045 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,594 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,978 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,142 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,517 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,623 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,116 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,609 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,458 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aranza a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aranza has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aranza: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aranza, and how old are they?
3,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,395 Americans ever recorded as Aranza. The median Aranza alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 2,079 people named Aranza (2,070 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 41 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 565 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,770 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aranza born?
The states with the most babies named Aranza are Texas, California and Florida, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 41 | #727 | 2.6× |
| California | 29 | #951 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,912 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,260 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,854 | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,057 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,552 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,054 | 0.1× |
Where Aranza is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aranza is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 2.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aranza with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aranza
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aranza and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aranza since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Aranza: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Aranza.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aranza alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.