Arian
Arian was given to 238 boys in 2025, #965 among boys’ names; 8,290 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,160 Americans named Arian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arian?
#965 among boys’ names, 2025
Arian fell from #714 in 2015 to #965 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.18 to 0.14 per 1,000.
543 babies in 2013, the peak
Arian peaked in 2013, when 543 babies were given it (494 boys, #538 among boys’ names). The 249 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 46% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,926 | 238 | #965 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,012 | 280 | #862 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,189 | 296 | #827 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,311 | 259 | #900 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,099 | 260 | #887 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,344 | 263 | #861 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,172 | 240 | #915 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,017 | 250 | #872 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,707 | 262 | #843 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,932 | 324 | #750 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,846 | 347 | #714 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,490 | 373 | #678 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,272 | 494 | #538 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,900 | 365 | #652 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,224 | 217 | #924 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,622 | 150 | #1,195 |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,678 | 151 | #1,193 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,655 | 129 | #1,334 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,123 | 127 | #1,332 |
| 2006 | 28 | #4,966 | 120 | #1,351 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,878 | 104 | #1,411 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,395 | 90 | #1,489 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,599 | 110 | #1,283 |
| 2002 | 52 | #2,855 | 93 | #1,404 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,416 | 105 | #1,261 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,976 | 99 | #1,297 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,436 | 49 | #1,963 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,931 | 63 | #1,639 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,696 | 50 | #1,858 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,506 | 55 | #1,704 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,484 | 49 | #1,777 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,876 | 40 | #2,039 |
| 1993 | 38 | #3,050 | 43 | #1,904 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,266 | 42 | #1,913 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,094 | 54 | #1,567 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,018 | 51 | #1,611 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,784 | 38 | #1,917 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,321 | 31 | #2,031 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,668 | 31 | #1,971 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,557 | 29 | #2,009 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,331 | 27 | #2,073 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,532 | 31 | #1,797 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,900 | 35 | #1,653 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,901 | 27 | #1,999 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,275 | 30 | #1,864 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,862 | 22 | #2,285 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,056 | 32 | #1,753 |
| 1978 | 24 | #3,204 | 23 | #2,070 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,911 | 32 | #1,671 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,075 | 21 | #2,179 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,177 | 16 | #2,542 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,029 | 12 | #2,955 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,982 | 8 | #3,719 |
| 1972 | under 5 | 10 | #3,166 | |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,550 | 7 | #3,987 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,772 | 8 | #3,535 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,541 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,290 Americans recorded as Arian, 19% are girls and 81% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Arian every year since 2000. In 2025 it went to 11 girls and 238 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arian, and how old are they?
8,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,290 Americans ever recorded as Arian. The median Arian alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 6,730 people named Arian (1,514 women and girls, 5,216 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,571 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 311 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,220 |
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 Arian born?
The states with the most babies named Arian are Texas, California and Florida, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 56 | #567 | 1.9× |
| California | 37 | #720 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 27 | #622 | 0.9× |
| New York | 20 | #717 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 10 | #640 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 8 | #994 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 7 | #879 | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,142 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 6 | #762 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,029 | 0.6× |
Where Arian is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arian is most over-represented in Texas: since 1969 it was given 1.9 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 boys’ 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 Arian 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 56,003 babies since 1880, Arian is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 249 of their 1,145 babies (22%), again the third 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 Arian
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 Arian and names like it
- Compare Arian and AronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArian peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arian since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Arian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.