Aryah
Aryah was given to 117 girls in 2025, #1,735 among girls’ names; 2,180 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Aryah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aryah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aryah?
#1,735 among girls’ names, 2025
Aryah rose from #1,922 in 2015 to #1,735 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 58.8 to 72.8 per million.
161 babies in 2019, the peak
Aryah peaked in 2019, when 161 girls were given it, #1,394 among girls’ names. The 117 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 117 | #1,735 | 72.8 |
| 2024 | 120 | #1,698 | 74.1 |
| 2023 | 140 | #1,524 | 87.3 |
| 2022 | 155 | #1,444 | 94.5 |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,477 | 88.4 |
| 2020 | 149 | #1,448 | 92.2 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,394 | 95.9 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,569 | 81.1 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,607 | 78.2 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,649 | 73.9 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 105 | #1,922 | 58.8 |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,472 | 40.9 |
| 2013 | 84 | #2,216 | 47.9 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,939 | 32.9 |
| 2011 | 64 | #2,727 | 36.4 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,730 | 36.6 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,195 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,019 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,539 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,931 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,031 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,763 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 29 | #4,427 | 15.9 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,779 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,357 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,960 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,275 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,582 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aryah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aryah 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 Aryah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aryah, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,180 Americans ever recorded as Aryah. The median Aryah alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,184 people named Aryah (1,140 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,382 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 | 522 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,640 |
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 Aryah born?
The states with the most babies named Aryah are Texas, California and Florida, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | #2,234 | 0.8× |
| California | 8 | #2,295 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,561 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,149 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 7 | #972 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,294 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,430 | 0.4× |
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 Aryah 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 Aryah?
Aryah is a less common spelling of Aria: SSA has recorded 2,180 Aryah and 96,373 Aria since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 169,759 babies since 1880, Aryah is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 117 of their 10,243 babies (1.1%), the seventh 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 Aryah
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 Aryah and names like it
- Compare Aryah and AriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAryah peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aryah since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Aryah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aryah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.