Arion
Arion was given to 70 boys in 2025, #2,092 among boys’ names; 2,830 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,750 Americans named Arion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arion mean?
Wiktionary, Latin section
Arion is “a male given name, equivalent to English Arion”
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρῑ́ων (Arī́ōn).
[aˈriː.oːn]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Latin section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arion?
#2,092 among boys’ names, 2025
Arion fell from #1,805 in 2015 to #2,092 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 43.3 to 41.0 per million.
104 babies in 1998, the peak
Arion peaked in 1998, when 104 babies were given it (33 boys, #2,553 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 70 | #2,092 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,531 | 54 | #2,505 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,441 | 54 | #2,481 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 57 | #2,437 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,247 | 57 | #2,374 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 73 | #1,966 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,591 | 71 | #2,045 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 60 | #2,263 | |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,334 | 68 | #2,050 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,537 | 67 | #2,088 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #10,985 | 83 | #1,805 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,097 | 89 | #1,702 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,088 | 78 | #1,828 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,680 | 81 | #1,818 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,281 | 68 | #2,000 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,167 | 68 | #2,012 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,367 | 67 | #2,051 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,027 | 71 | #1,982 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,540 | 73 | #1,928 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,613 | 68 | #1,969 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,846 | 67 | #1,887 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,831 | 69 | #1,802 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,435 | 54 | #2,075 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,097 | 53 | #2,043 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,698 | 48 | #2,149 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,333 | 47 | #2,136 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,994 | 40 | #2,263 |
| 1998 | 71 | #2,063 | 33 | #2,553 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,083 | 25 | #2,983 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,169 | 25 | #2,915 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,986 | 19 | #3,432 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,704 | 14 | #4,298 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,096 | 24 | #2,865 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,672 | 29 | #2,463 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,612 | 25 | #2,683 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,305 | 14 | #3,976 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,982 | 17 | #3,325 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,307 | 16 | #3,205 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,398 | 12 | #3,736 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,639 | 16 | #3,011 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,394 | 19 | #2,602 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,538 | 11 | #3,716 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,357 | 16 | #2,794 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,514 | 10 | #3,976 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 8 | #4,535 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 14 | #3,104 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 17 | #2,675 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 13 | #3,076 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,197 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #5,512 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 9 | #3,465 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,030 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 7 | #3,866 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,697 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 6 | #3,521 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 5 | #3,804 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 8 | #3,276 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,027 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,354 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,210 |
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 Arion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,830 Americans recorded as Arion, 22% are girls and 78% boys. Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Arion every year since 2014. In 2025 it went to 70 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 Arion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arion, and how old are they?
2,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,830 Americans ever recorded as Arion. The median Arion alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,109 people named Arion (546 women and girls, 1,563 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,398 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 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 76 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 416 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 946 |
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 Arion born?
The states with the most babies named Arion are New York, California and Texas, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,306 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,227 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,305 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,118 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,856 | 0.5× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Arion 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 672,705 babies since 1880, Arion is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 5,129 babies (1.4%), again the sixth 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 Arion
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 Arion and names like it
- Compare Arion and AaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArion peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arion since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Arion: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Arion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.