Arial — girls' name

What the Data Says About Arial

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,189 babies named Arial between 1981 and 2022, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arial currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 69 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arial performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 431 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Arial shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 89 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Arial in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arial in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,189 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.