Ariana
Ariana was given to 2,219 girls in 2025, #128 among girls’ names; 120,580 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 119,000 Americans named Ariana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariana mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariana is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.” Its etymology gives the senses “most” (ari)) and “holy” (adnos)).
Modern simplification of Arianna, Ariane and Arianne, all forms of the Greek name Ariadne (“most holy”; Cretan Greek αρι (ari) “most” and αδνος (adnos) “holy”). There has been some confusion with the similar sounding Adriana and Adrienne.
By folk etymology also associated with Welsh arian (“silver”).
/ɑːɹiˈænə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariana?
#128 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariana fell from #46 in 2015 to #128 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.8 to 1.4 per 1,000.
5,514 babies in 2014, the peak
Ariana peaked in 2014, when 5,514 babies were given it (5,504 girls, #37 among girls’ names). The 2,219 births of 2025 are 40% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,219 | #128 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 2,581 | #102 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 2,720 | #97 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 2,854 | #90 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 2,983 | #88 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 3,175 | #79 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 3,684 | #69 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 3,739 | #68 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 3,890 | #67 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 4,609 | #54 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,973 | #46 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5,504 | #37 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 4,422 | #54 | 2.5 |
| 2012 | 3,588 | #74 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 3,456 | #84 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 3,477 | #84 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 3,701 | #82 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 3,916 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 2007 | 4,326 | #73 | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 4,234 | #78 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 3,981 | #82 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 3,996 | #79 | 2.2 |
| 2003 | 3,834 | #85 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 3,492 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 2001 | 3,377 | #92 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 3,153 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 2,529 | #130 | 1.4 |
| 1998 | 2,424 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 1997 | 2,319 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 1996 | 2,044 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 1,948 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 1,874 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 1,534 | #190 | 0.85 |
| 1992 | 1,371 | #207 | 0.74 |
| 1991 | 1,562 | #192 | 0.83 |
| 1990 | 1,259 | #228 | 0.66 |
| 1989 | 967 | #278 | 0.52 |
| 1988 | 638 | #377 | 0.36 |
| 1987 | 523 | #429 | 0.30 |
| 1986 | 419 | #502 | 0.24 |
| 1985 | 369 | #539 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 363 | #529 | 0.22 |
| 1983 | 380 | #509 | 0.23 |
| 1982 | 367 | #533 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 348 | #540 | 0.21 |
| 1980 | 311 | #598 | 0.19 |
| 1979 | 136 | #1,030 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 153 | #924 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 105 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 79 | #1,356 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 70 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,689 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 48 | #1,788 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 49 | #1,771 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 51 | #1,755 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,457 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,167 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,358 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,411 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,501 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,426 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,126 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariana has been given almost only to girls: 200 boys in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ariana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariana, and how old are they?
119,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 120,580 Americans ever recorded as Ariana. The median Ariana alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 95,572 people named Ariana (95,386 women and girls, 186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 103,842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 20 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 15,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 55,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 47,100 |
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 Ariana born?
The states with the most babies named Ariana are California, Texas and Florida, with 41% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 410 | #67 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 339 | #74 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 157 | #107 | 1.1× |
| New York | 137 | #111 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 80 | #88 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 65 | #151 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 62 | #162 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 60 | #172 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 59 | #125 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 56 | #113 | 1.3× |
Where Ariana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariana is most over-represented in California: since 1957 it was given 1.5 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 Ariana 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 255,666 babies since 1880, Ariana is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,219 of their 3,828 babies (58%), 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 Ariana
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 Ariana and names like it
- Compare Ariana and AriannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAriana peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariana since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariana: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Ariana.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ariana alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.