Ariah
Ariah was given to 457 girls in 2025, #636 among girls’ names; 11,751 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Ariah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariah is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Also “a male given name from Hebrew.”
From Hebrew אַרְיֵה (“God has promised. Also, lion of God”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariah?
#636 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariah fell from #515 in 2015 to #636 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.34 to 0.28 per 1,000.
1,053 babies in 2016, the peak
Ariah peaked in 2016, when 1,053 babies were given it (1,046 girls, #311 among girls’ names). The 457 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 457 | #636 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 516 | #585 | 0.32 |
| 2023 | 593 | #512 | 0.37 |
| 2022 | 688 | #461 | 0.42 |
| 2021 | 728 | #433 | 0.44 |
| 2020 | 778 | #400 | 0.48 |
| 2019 | 869 | #364 | 0.52 |
| 2018 | 926 | #343 | 0.54 |
| 2017 | 1,011 | #323 | 0.59 |
| 2016 | 1,046 | #311 | 0.59 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 608 | #515 | 0.34 |
| 2014 | 409 | #692 | 0.23 |
| 2013 | 388 | #715 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 329 | #814 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 252 | #999 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 256 | #989 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 241 | #1,059 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,137 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 176 | #1,373 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 177 | #1,325 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 177 | #1,267 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 120 | #1,615 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,533 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,822 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,976 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 83 | #1,995 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,308 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,082 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,822 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,430 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,679 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,447 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,065 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,033 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,659 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariah has been given almost only to girls: 76 boys in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ariah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariah, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,751 Americans ever recorded as Ariah. The median Ariah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 6,429 people named Ariah (6,318 women and girls, 111 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,112 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 131 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,030 |
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 Ariah born?
The states with the most babies named Ariah are Texas, California and Florida, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 55 | #571 | 1.0× |
| California | 46 | #676 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 35 | #518 | 1.2× |
| New York | 25 | #659 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 19 | #536 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 17 | #617 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #606 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 16 | #600 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 15 | #522 | 0.8× |
| Arizona | 13 | #520 | 1.2× |
Where Ariah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1991 it was given 1.2 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 Ariah 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 172,297 babies since 1880, Ariah is the third most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 457 of their 10,150 babies (4.5%), the fifth 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 Ariah
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 Ariah and names like it
- Compare Ariah and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAriah peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariah since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariah: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Ariah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ariah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.