Aryeh
Aryeh was given to 153 boys in 2025, #1,281 among boys’ names; 3,500 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,410 Americans named Aryeh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 7 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aryeh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aryeh?
#1,281 among boys’ names, 2025
Aryeh rose from #1,502 in 2015 to #1,281 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 57.4 to 89.6 per million.
153 babies in 2025, the peak
Aryeh peaked in 2025, when 153 boys were given it, #1,281 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 150 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,281 | 89.6 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,303 | 87.1 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,703 | 57.9 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,374 | 77.9 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,339 | 78.9 |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,451 | 68.9 |
| 2019 | 135 | #1,337 | 75.2 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,466 | 65.0 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,439 | 64.3 |
| 2016 | 99 | #1,618 | 52.2 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 110 | #1,502 | 57.4 |
| 2014 | 91 | #1,680 | 47.4 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,376 | 64.5 |
| 2012 | 94 | #1,638 | 49.6 |
| 2011 | 81 | #1,779 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 86 | #1,753 | 44.8 |
| 2009 | 98 | #1,617 | 49.4 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,002 | 34.3 |
| 2007 | 74 | #1,913 | 35.7 |
| 2006 | 71 | #1,892 | 34.5 |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,081 | 29.5 |
| 2004 | 73 | #1,730 | 36.8 |
| 2003 | 67 | #1,780 | 33.9 |
| 2002 | 58 | #1,914 | 29.9 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,346 | 21.6 |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,014 | 25.5 |
| 1999 | 33 | #2,608 | 17.2 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,157 | 22.0 |
| 1997 | 41 | #2,128 | 21.7 |
| 1996 | 53 | #1,740 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,753 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 36 | #2,219 | 18.6 |
| 1993 | 42 | #1,935 | 21.4 |
| 1992 | 39 | #1,999 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 32 | #2,227 | 15.8 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,751 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,950 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 50 | #1,497 | 26.1 |
| 1987 | 33 | #1,894 | 17.7 |
| 1986 | 31 | #1,921 | 16.8 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,795 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,887 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,748 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,114 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 19 | #2,499 | 10.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,812 | 17.4 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,581 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 31 | #1,723 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,465 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,181 | 13.4 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,644 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 27 | #1,755 | 17.2 |
| 1973 | 18 | #2,222 | 11.5 |
| 1972 | 16 | #2,327 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #2,824 | 6.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,259 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,422 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,388 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,999 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,259 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,792 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,673 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,669 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 6 | #3,659 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,857 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aryeh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aryeh has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 65 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aryeh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aryeh, and how old are they?
3,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,500 Americans ever recorded as Aryeh. The median Aryeh alive today is 15 years old; half are between 7 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,400 people named Aryeh (28 women and girls, 2,372 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,674 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 | 21 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 228 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 558 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,020 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,580 |
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 Aryeh born?
The states with the most babies named Aryeh are New Jersey, New York and California, with 85% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 58 | #176 | 8.5× |
| New York | 46 | #384 | 6.7× |
| California | 10 | #1,595 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,361 | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,034 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,602 | 0.0× |
Where Aryeh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aryeh is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1954 it was given 8.5 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 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 Aryeh 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,122 babies since 1880, Aryeh is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 182 babies (84%), again the 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 Aryeh
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 Aryeh and names like it
- Compare Aryeh and AryeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAryeh peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aryeh since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aryeh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aryeh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.