Ariane
Ariane was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,350 among girls’ names; 3,782 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,670 Americans named Ariane and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 17 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariane by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariane mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariane is “a female given name from Ancient Greek or French.”
From French Ariane, from Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη (Ariádnē).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariane?
#6,350 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariane fell from #1,658 in 2015 to #6,350 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.3 to 11.2 per million.
164 babies in 1978, the peak
Ariane peaked in 1978, when 164 girls were given it, #887 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,350 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,811 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,279 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,011 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,251 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,334 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,504 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,488 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,272 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 129 | #1,658 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 148 | #1,502 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,415 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,172 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,477 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,116 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 45 | #3,566 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,300 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,694 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,696 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,651 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,222 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,232 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,151 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,046 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 36 | #3,443 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,122 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,308 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 58 | #2,281 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,153 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 72 | #1,949 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 88 | #1,691 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,906 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,449 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,489 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,382 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 120 | #1,238 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,498 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,329 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 119 | #1,185 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,284 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 106 | #1,208 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 96 | #1,308 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,433 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 122 | #1,117 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 111 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 164 | #887 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 75 | #1,468 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,666 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,782 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,320 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,983 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,066 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,658 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,438 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,398 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,176 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,496 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,251 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,271 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 18 | #3,003 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #2,960 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,551 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,878 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,701 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,834 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,093 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,151 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,245 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,943 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariane a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariane has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 71 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ariane: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariane, and how old are they?
3,670 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,782 Americans ever recorded as Ariane. The median Ariane alive today is 35 years old; half are between 17 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 4,294 people named Ariane (4,249 women and girls, 45 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,573 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 96 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 680 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 668 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 776 |
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 Ariane born?
The states with the most babies named Ariane are California, New York and Louisiana, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 478 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 285 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 193 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Texas | 166 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 86 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 47 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Ariane is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariane is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1952 it was given 2.8 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 Ariane 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 246,980 babies since 1880, Ariane is the fifth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 3,813 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Ariane
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 Ariane and names like it
- Compare Ariane and ArianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAriane peaked in 1978.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariane since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariane: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1978The year the most babies were named Ariane.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ariane alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.