Ariele
Ariele was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,177 among girls’ names; 583 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariele mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Ariele is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “lion of God” (literally) and “lion” (אֲרִי) and “God” (אֵל).
From Biblical Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, literally “lion of God”), a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) and אֵל (él, “God”).
/aˈrjɛ.le/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariele?
#15,177 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariele fell from #11,948 in 2015 to #15,177 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
53 babies in 1991, the peak
Ariele peaked in 1991, when 53 girls were given it, #2,383 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,177 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,289 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,515 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,329 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,044 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,948 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,033 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,804 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,161 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,499 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | #10,526 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,464 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,544 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,802 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,747 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,955 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,735 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,427 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,348 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,104 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,915 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,761 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,645 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,833 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,590 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,031 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,132 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,990 | 14.4 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,422 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,383 | 28.3 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,521 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,477 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,152 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,041 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,472 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,134 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 14 | #4,979 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,123 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,556 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,441 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,494 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,359 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,865 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ariele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariele, and how old are they?
An estimated 571 Americans named Ariele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 24 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 564 people named Ariele (557 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 557 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 78,461 babies since 1880, Ariele is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 3,070 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Ariele
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 Ariele and names like it
- Compare Ariele and ArielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAriele peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariele since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariele: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Ariele.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ariele alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.