Ariel — #300 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Ariel

The Social Security Administration has registered 77,823 babies named Ariel between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ariel currently holds the #300 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 5,411 babies received it in a single year. Ariel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 21,430 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ariel performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 28,142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Ariel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11,675 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ariel in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ariel 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 77,823 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.