Arien
Arien was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,166 among boys’ names; 1,102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,080 Americans named Arien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arien?
#6,166 among boys’ names, 2025
Arien fell from #3,784 in 2015 to #6,166 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.6 to 8.2 per million.
55 babies in 2013, the peak
Arien peaked in 2013, when 55 babies were given it (44 boys, #2,667 among boys’ names). The 14 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,166 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,253 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,305 | 14 | #6,243 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,769 | 5 | #12,493 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,516 | 10 | #7,630 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,624 | 21 | #4,546 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,564 | 14 | #6,121 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,977 | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,878 | 24 | #4,227 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,283 | 12 | #6,752 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,227 | 28 | #3,784 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,521 | 25 | #4,018 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,679 | 44 | #2,667 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 22 | #4,398 | |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,468 | 13 | #6,275 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,292 | 19 | #4,852 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,772 | 19 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,699 | 16 | #5,502 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,901 | 19 | #4,819 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,978 | 19 | #4,689 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,377 | 16 | #5,045 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,785 | 5 | #11,482 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,618 | 12 | #5,891 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,901 | 14 | #5,145 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,426 | 13 | #5,397 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,072 | 18 | #4,206 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,498 | 9 | #6,563 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,237 | 10 | #5,857 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,386 | 10 | #5,665 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,168 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,555 | 5 | #8,951 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,344 | 8 | #6,409 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,620 | 12 | #4,707 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,035 | 8 | #6,160 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,459 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,300 | 11 | #4,676 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,981 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,454 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 8 | #4,989 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,018 | 10 | #4,145 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,603 | 8 | #4,720 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,203 | 10 | #3,936 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,840 | 6 | #5,520 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,222 | 7 | #5,045 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,357 | 11 | #3,617 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,003 | 21 | #2,368 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,911 | 14 | #3,021 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,589 | 17 | #2,574 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,102 Americans recorded as Arien, 41% are girls and 59% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arien, and how old are they?
1,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,102 Americans ever recorded as Arien. The median Arien alive today is 20 years old; half are between 12 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Arien (427 women and girls, 508 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 95 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 244 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 383 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 356 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 54,950 babies since 1880, Arien is the eighth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 1,085 babies (1.3%), the sixth 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 Arien
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 Arien and names like it
- Compare Arien and AronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArien peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arien since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Arien.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arien alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.