Ariadne
Ariadne was given to 115 girls in 2025, #1,758 among girls’ names; 4,824 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,770 Americans named Ariadne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariadne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariadne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariadne is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη (Ariádnē).
/ˌæ.ɹiˈæd.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariadne?
#1,758 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariadne fell from #771 in 2015 to #1,758 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.21 to 0.07 per 1,000.
389 babies in 2016, the peak
Ariadne peaked in 2016, when 389 girls were given it, #732 among girls’ names. The 115 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 115 | #1,758 | 0.07 |
| 2024 | 184 | #1,264 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,137 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 207 | #1,166 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,155 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 195 | #1,189 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 258 | #1,000 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 286 | #934 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 353 | #777 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 389 | #732 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 367 | #771 | 0.21 |
| 2014 | 350 | #801 | 0.20 |
| 2013 | 197 | #1,221 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 117 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 175 | #1,329 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 97 | #2,046 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 101 | #2,031 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,337 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,294 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,094 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,265 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,996 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,705 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,579 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,458 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,779 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,237 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,732 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,552 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,462 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,104 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,119 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,008 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,384 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,506 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,304 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,151 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,396 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,471 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,385 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,450 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,252 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,924 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,566 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,100 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,694 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 6 | #8,504 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,235 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,528 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,494 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,500 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,431 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,792 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,481 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,891 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,553 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 8 | #4,786 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariadne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariadne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ariadne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariadne, and how old are they?
4,770 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,824 Americans ever recorded as Ariadne. The median Ariadne alive today is 10 years old; half are between 7 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 3,062 people named Ariadne (3,052 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,712 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 19 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 114 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 236 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,310 |
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 Ariadne born?
The states with the most babies named Ariadne are Texas, California and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 30 | #953 | 2.3× |
| California | 19 | #1,278 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 9 | #938 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,384 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,195 | 0.5× |
Where Ariadne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariadne is most over-represented in Texas: since 1960 it was given 2.3 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 Ariadne 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 8,852 babies since 1880, Ariadne is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 115 of their 268 babies (43%), the second most given that year.
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 Ariadne
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 Ariadne and names like it
- Compare Ariadne and AriadnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAriadne peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariadne since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariadne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ariadne.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ariadne alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.