Arianna
Arianna was given to 1,323 girls in 2025, #234 among girls’ names; 104,225 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 103,000 Americans named Arianna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arianna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arianna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arianna is “a female given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Italian Arianna, from Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη (Ariádnē).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arianna?
#234 among girls’ names, 2025
Arianna fell from #56 in 2015 to #234 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.5 to 0.82 per 1,000.
5,282 babies in 2014, the peak
Arianna peaked in 2014, when 5,282 babies were given it (5,276 girls, #40 among girls’ names). The 1,323 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,323 | #234 | 0.82 |
| 2024 | 1,564 | #196 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,595 | #190 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,696 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,920 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2,214 | #124 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,516 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,983 | #95 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 3,290 | #87 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 3,913 | #69 | 2.2 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,548 | #56 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 5,276 | #40 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 5,005 | #44 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 4,735 | #49 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 4,700 | #52 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 4,848 | #54 | 2.7 |
| 2009 | 4,845 | #52 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 4,426 | #66 | 2.3 |
| 2007 | 4,481 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 4,292 | #76 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 3,673 | #88 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 3,686 | #86 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 3,796 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 2,965 | #114 | 1.7 |
| 2001 | 3,015 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 2000 | 2,659 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 2,063 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 1,841 | #167 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 1,706 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 1,369 | #214 | 0.78 |
| 1995 | 1,159 | #244 | 0.66 |
| 1994 | 983 | #281 | 0.55 |
| 1993 | 731 | #352 | 0.40 |
| 1992 | 650 | #396 | 0.35 |
| 1991 | 827 | #323 | 0.44 |
| 1990 | 629 | #411 | 0.33 |
| 1989 | 502 | #472 | 0.27 |
| 1988 | 251 | #747 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 197 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 159 | #988 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 133 | #1,092 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 112 | #1,179 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 137 | #1,025 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 148 | #995 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 109 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 85 | #1,435 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 56 | #1,875 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,636 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 34 | #2,521 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #2,547 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 24 | #2,973 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,114 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #4,538 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 25 | #2,807 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,722 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,519 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,793 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 41 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,565 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,321 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arianna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arianna has been given almost only to girls: 73 boys in 61 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arianna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arianna, and how old are they?
103,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 104,225 Americans ever recorded as Arianna. The median Arianna alive today is 16 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 80,594 people named Arianna (80,479 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 446 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,910 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 57,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 37,600 |
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 Arianna born?
The states with the most babies named Arianna are California, Texas and Florida, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 243 | #124 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 221 | #144 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 90 | #210 | 1.3× |
| New York | 83 | #204 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 48 | #171 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 48 | #224 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 45 | #234 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 34 | #315 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | #353 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 29 | #393 | 0.7× |
Where Arianna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arianna is most over-represented in New Mexico: since 1963 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 Arianna 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, Arianna is the second most given (41% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,323 of their 3,828 babies (35%), again the second 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 Arianna
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 Arianna and names like it
- Compare Arianna and ArianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArianna peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arianna since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Arianna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Arianna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arianna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.