Ariell
Ariell was given to 11 girls in 2025, #8,929 among girls’ names; 900 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ariell?
#8,929 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariell fell from #6,492 in 2015 to #8,929 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.8 per million.
69 babies in 1990, the peak
Ariell peaked in 1990, when 69 girls were given it, #1,970 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,929 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,657 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,049 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,744 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,669 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,595 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,563 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,615 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,492 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,949 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,492 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,228 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,842 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,722 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,588 | 10.8 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,675 | 10.7 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,912 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,829 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,577 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,888 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,449 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,991 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,607 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,464 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,697 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,835 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,980 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 26 | #4,241 | 14.7 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,024 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,190 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,530 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,121 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,503 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,423 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 68 | #2,010 | 36.3 |
| 1990 | 69 | #1,970 | 36.3 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,765 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,856 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,397 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,473 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,392 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,234 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,694 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,926 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariell has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ariell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariell, and how old are they?
An estimated 885 Americans named Ariell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 735 people named Ariell (689 women and girls, 46 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Ariell?
Ariell is a less common spelling of Ariel: SSA has recorded 900 Ariell and 100,665 Ariel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 105,885 babies since 1880, Ariell is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,438 babies (<1%), the third 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 Ariell
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 Ariell and names like it
- Compare Ariell and ArielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sAriell peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariell since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Ariell.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Ariell alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.