Aria
Aria was given to 6,130 girls in 2025, #26 among girls’ names; 96,373 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 95,600 Americans named Aria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aria mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aria is “a female given name from English.” Its etymology gives the sense “a musical aria” (as).
As a 21st century English name from TV and fantasy fiction, explained as “a musical aria”. Similar sounding names exist in many languages, e.g. Ariah and Arie from Hebrew, Arya from Sanskrit, and Aria, Dutch short form of Adriana.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aria?
#26 among girls’ names, 2025
Aria rose from #29 in 2015 to #26 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.6 to 3.8 per 1,000.
7,454 babies in 2018, the peak
Aria peaked in 2018, when 7,454 babies were given it (7,437 girls, #19 among girls’ names). The 6,152 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,130 | #26 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 5,956 | #26 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6,024 | #25 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 6,406 | #23 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 6,400 | #22 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | 6,143 | #27 | 3.8 |
| 2019 | 7,120 | #20 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 7,437 | #19 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7,168 | #20 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 6,949 | #23 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6,419 | #29 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 5,933 | #31 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 5,118 | #41 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 3,233 | #92 | 1.8 |
| 2011 | 1,983 | #157 | 1.1 |
| 2010 | 904 | #353 | 0.51 |
| 2009 | 596 | #506 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 541 | #571 | 0.29 |
| 2007 | 530 | #567 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 444 | #653 | 0.23 |
| 2005 | 384 | #711 | 0.21 |
| 2004 | 403 | #684 | 0.22 |
| 2003 | 402 | #662 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 331 | #736 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 321 | #746 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 221 | #956 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,012 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,088 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,302 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,224 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 151 | #1,150 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,492 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,879 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,527 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,638 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,640 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,671 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,026 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 42 | #2,386 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,223 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,907 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,048 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,929 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,655 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,934 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,784 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,840 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,686 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,608 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,474 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,487 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,285 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,571 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,880 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,065 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,076 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,136 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,125 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,706 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,363 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,587 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,079 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,889 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,126 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,681 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,151 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,842 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,896 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,942 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,706 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,905 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,158 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,231 | 0.01 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,487 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aria has been given almost only to girls: 699 boys in 90 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aria, and how old are they?
95,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 96,373 Americans ever recorded as Aria. The median Aria alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 53,360 people named Aria (52,491 women and girls, 869 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 60,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 226 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,370 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 83,000 |
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 Aria born?
The states with the most babies named Aria are California, Texas and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 985 | #15 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 705 | #20 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 491 | #12 | 1.1× |
| New York | 361 | #22 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 206 | #25 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 204 | #11 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 201 | #31 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 196 | #33 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 183 | #24 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 179 | #41 | 0.8× |
Where Aria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aria is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 1.6 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 Aria with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 175,145 babies since 1880, Aria is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6,152 of their 10,373 babies (59%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aria
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 Aria and names like it
- Compare Aria and AryaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAria peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aria since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Aria: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Aria.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aria alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.