Ariella
Ariella was given to 1,756 girls in 2025, #174 among girls’ names; 22,376 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,200 Americans named Ariella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariella is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
Feminine form of Ariel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariella?
#174 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariella rose from #400 in 2015 to #174 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.46 to 1.1 per 1,000.
1,802 babies in 2020, the peak
Ariella peaked in 2020, when 1,802 girls were given it, #154 among girls’ names. The 1,756 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,756 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,566 | #195 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,619 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 1,633 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 1,701 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,802 | #154 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 1,422 | #216 | 0.85 |
| 2018 | 1,171 | #283 | 0.69 |
| 2017 | 1,104 | #293 | 0.64 |
| 2016 | 984 | #338 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 813 | #400 | 0.46 |
| 2014 | 846 | #386 | 0.47 |
| 2013 | 710 | #429 | 0.40 |
| 2012 | 553 | #543 | 0.31 |
| 2011 | 455 | #628 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 385 | #728 | 0.22 |
| 2009 | 324 | #860 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 300 | #913 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 247 | #1,059 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 249 | #1,026 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,182 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 147 | #1,413 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 164 | #1,272 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 138 | #1,395 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,402 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 122 | #1,504 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,340 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 135 | #1,312 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 122 | #1,388 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 114 | #1,437 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 132 | #1,270 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,493 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,484 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 104 | #1,504 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 135 | #1,244 | 0.07 |
| 1990 | 134 | #1,233 | 0.07 |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,783 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,909 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,197 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,054 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,751 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,384 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,159 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,775 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 29 | #2,992 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,869 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,910 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,290 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 16 | #3,972 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,530 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,741 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,165 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,313 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,151 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,509 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,006 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,077 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariella has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 58 years of records.
Girls and boys named Ariella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariella, and how old are they?
22,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 22,376 Americans ever recorded as Ariella. The median Ariella alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 10,319 people named Ariella (10,297 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,642 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 178 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,770 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,000 |
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 Ariella born?
The states with the most babies named Ariella are Texas, California and New York, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 283 | #99 | 1.0× |
| California | 267 | #111 | 1.0× |
| New York | 147 | #98 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 146 | #118 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 78 | #90 | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 53 | #117 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | #235 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 46 | #244 | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 45 | #199 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 41 | #258 | 0.8× |
Where Ariella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariella is most over-represented in New York: since 1967 it was given 2.1 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 Ariella 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 60,521 babies since 1880, Ariella is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,756 of their 2,695 babies (65%), the 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 Ariella
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 Ariella and names like it
- Compare Ariella and ArielleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAriella peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariella since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Ariella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Ariella.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ariella alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.