Ariyah
Ariyah was given to 836 girls in 2025, #367 among girls’ names; 11,120 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Ariyah 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 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ariyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ariyah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ariyah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ariyah?
#367 among girls’ names, 2025
Ariyah rose from #607 in 2015 to #367 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.27 to 0.52 per 1,000.
927 babies in 2023, the peak
Ariyah peaked in 2023, when 927 girls were given it, #335 among girls’ names. The 836 births of 2025 are 90% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 836 | #367 | 0.52 |
| 2024 | 907 | #344 | 0.56 |
| 2023 | 927 | #335 | 0.58 |
| 2022 | 862 | #369 | 0.53 |
| 2021 | 907 | #346 | 0.55 |
| 2020 | 810 | #381 | 0.50 |
| 2019 | 909 | #347 | 0.54 |
| 2018 | 912 | #348 | 0.54 |
| 2017 | 748 | #426 | 0.43 |
| 2016 | 713 | #452 | 0.40 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 482 | #607 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 289 | #933 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 307 | #847 | 0.17 |
| 2012 | 248 | #1,020 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 221 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 204 | #1,190 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 167 | #1,410 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,720 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 112 | #1,869 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 106 | #1,906 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,140 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 70 | #2,422 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,886 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,735 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,636 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,157 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,500 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ariyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ariyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ariyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ariyah, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,120 Americans ever recorded as Ariyah. The median Ariyah alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 4,337 people named Ariyah (4,308 women and girls, 29 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,037 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 1,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,550 |
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 Ariyah born?
The states with the most babies named Ariyah are Texas, Florida and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 92 | #373 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 66 | #284 | 1.3× |
| California | 65 | #510 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 53 | #199 | 1.7× |
| New York | 46 | #368 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 41 | #266 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 36 | #309 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 27 | #285 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 25 | #353 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 24 | #443 | 0.9× |
Where Ariyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ariyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1998 it was given 2.0 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 Ariyah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Ariyah?
Ariyah is a less common spelling of Aria: SSA has recorded 11,120 Ariyah and 96,373 Aria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,483 babies since 1880, Ariyah is the fourth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 836 of their 10,281 babies (8.1%), 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 Ariyah
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 Ariyah and names like it
- Compare Ariyah and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAriyah peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ariyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ariyah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ariyah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.