Arielle
Arielle was given to 618 girls in 2025, #486 among girls’ names; 30,921 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 30,500 Americans named Arielle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arielle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arielle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arielle is “a female given name from Hebrew.”
A French variant of Ariel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arielle?
#486 among girls’ names, 2025
Arielle fell from #352 in 2015 to #486 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.52 to 0.38 per 1,000.
1,631 babies in 1991, the peak
Arielle peaked in 1991, when 1,631 girls were given it, #183 among girls’ names. The 618 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 618 | #486 | 0.38 |
| 2024 | 614 | #498 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 730 | #420 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 815 | #385 | 0.50 |
| 2021 | 855 | #360 | 0.52 |
| 2020 | 892 | #346 | 0.55 |
| 2019 | 972 | #330 | 0.58 |
| 2018 | 1,011 | #323 | 0.59 |
| 2017 | 1,020 | #320 | 0.59 |
| 2016 | 1,075 | #303 | 0.61 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 932 | #352 | 0.52 |
| 2014 | 987 | #340 | 0.55 |
| 2013 | 855 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2012 | 762 | #410 | 0.43 |
| 2011 | 587 | #501 | 0.33 |
| 2010 | 591 | #506 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 548 | #558 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 493 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 493 | #610 | 0.26 |
| 2006 | 502 | #583 | 0.26 |
| 2005 | 451 | #622 | 0.24 |
| 2004 | 427 | #639 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 476 | #579 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 453 | #576 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 452 | #570 | 0.25 |
| 2000 | 479 | #544 | 0.26 |
| 1999 | 527 | #493 | 0.30 |
| 1998 | 612 | #434 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 669 | #389 | 0.38 |
| 1996 | 605 | #419 | 0.35 |
| 1995 | 689 | #382 | 0.39 |
| 1994 | 598 | #418 | 0.33 |
| 1993 | 620 | #403 | 0.34 |
| 1992 | 974 | #283 | 0.53 |
| 1991 | 1,631 | #183 | 0.87 |
| 1990 | 1,569 | #185 | 0.83 |
| 1989 | 1,530 | #185 | 0.83 |
| 1988 | 653 | #368 | 0.37 |
| 1987 | 341 | #581 | 0.20 |
| 1986 | 318 | #604 | 0.19 |
| 1985 | 306 | #618 | 0.18 |
| 1984 | 299 | #599 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 249 | #682 | 0.15 |
| 1982 | 161 | #929 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 100 | #1,278 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,419 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 44 | #2,219 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,393 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 36 | #2,425 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,870 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,702 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,602 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,997 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,317 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,048 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,511 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,325 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arielle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arielle has been given almost only to girls: 51 boys in 59 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arielle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arielle, and how old are they?
30,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 30,921 Americans ever recorded as Arielle. The median Arielle alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 23,086 people named Arielle (23,027 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 26,285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 305 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,430 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,300 |
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 Arielle born?
The states with the most babies named Arielle are California, Texas and New York, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 75 | #443 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 60 | #532 | 0.8× |
| New York | 57 | #295 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 48 | #384 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #406 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 25 | #454 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 24 | #442 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #364 | 1.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #519 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 18 | #460 | 1.1× |
Where Arielle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arielle is most over-represented in New York: since 1962 it was given 1.8 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 Arielle 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, Arielle is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 618 of their 2,695 babies (23%), the second 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 Arielle
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 Arielle and names like it
- Compare Arielle and AriellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArielle peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arielle since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Arielle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Arielle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arielle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.