Zariel — #9249 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Zariel

The Social Security Administration has registered 231 babies named Zariel between 1999 and 2024, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Zariel currently holds the #9249 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Zariel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 2009.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Zariel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Zariel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Zariel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Zariel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 231 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.