Ariela
Ariela was given to 177 girls in 2025, #1,263 among girls’ names; 3,841 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,800 Americans named Ariela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ariela?
#1,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariela rose from #1,455 in 2015 to #1,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.09 to 0.11 per 1,000.
212 babies in 2024, the peak
Ariela peaked in 2024, when 212 girls were given it, #1,141 among girls’ names. The 177 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 177 | #1,263 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 212 | #1,141 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 165 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 185 | #1,285 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 155 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 177 | #1,266 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,358 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,597 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,479 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,516 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,455 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 142 | #1,535 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,778 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,809 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,928 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 115 | #1,785 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,793 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,866 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 74 | #2,515 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,083 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,294 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,153 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 86 | #2,060 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,580 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,843 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,978 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 45 | #2,936 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,527 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,932 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,628 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,090 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,448 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,220 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 38 | #3,035 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 46 | #2,617 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,849 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,250 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,178 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,464 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,332 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,436 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,390 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,543 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,173 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,637 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,418 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,438 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ariela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariela, and how old are they?
3,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,841 Americans ever recorded as Ariela. The median Ariela alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,004 people named Ariela (2,993 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,788 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 39 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 426 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,260 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,070 |
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 Ariela born?
The states with the most babies named Ariela are Texas, California and Florida, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 35 | #843 | 1.0× |
| California | 28 | #972 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 16 | #964 | 1.4× |
| New York | 11 | #1,241 | 2.2× |
| Arizona | 10 | #637 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,121 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,261 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #771 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,465 | 0.2× |
Where Ariela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariela is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 2.2 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 Ariela with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ariela?
Ariela is a less common spelling of Ariella: SSA has recorded 3,841 Ariela and 22,376 Ariella since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 79,135 babies since 1880, Ariela is the fifth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 177 of their 3,098 babies (5.7%), again the fifth 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 Ariela
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 Ariela and names like it
- Compare Ariela and AriellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAriela peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariela since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Ariela.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ariela alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.