Ariah
#636 for girls in 2025, 457 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #7,765
Given to girls 99.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 1,046 births
- Debut · girls
- 21 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,675since 1991
Ariah over time
Rank among girls' names. Ariah has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #636 | 457 | — | |
| 2024 | #585 | 516 | #7,765 | 10 |
| 2023 | #512 | 593 | — | |
| 2022 | #461 | 688 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #433 | 728 | — | |
| 2020 | #400 | 778 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #364 | 869 | #8,215 | 9 |
| 2018 | #343 | 926 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #323 | 1,011 | — | |
| 2016 | #310 | 1,046 | #9,664 | 7 |
| 2015 | #515 | 608 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #692 | 409 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #715 | 388 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #814 | 329 | — | |
| 2011 | #999 | 252 | — | |
| 2010 | #988 | 256 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,059 | 241 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #1,137 | 226 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,370 | 176 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,324 | 177 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,265 | 177 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,614 | 120 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,534 | 126 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,978 | 86 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,998 | 83 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,083 | 70 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,429 | 33 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,677 | 21 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | — | |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,008 | 15 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ariah! It came in at #4,650, and was given to 21 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1992–1993, when fewer than 16 girls a year got the name.
Where Ariah is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#531 · 1 in 2,657
- Michigan#927 · 1 in 7,131
- Texas#1,557 · 1 in 13,929
- Illinois#1,578 · 1 in 14,075
- California#2,393 · 1 in 27,784
Best ever in a state: #111 in New Mexico, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #531 | 6 | 1 in 2,657 |
| Michigan | #927 | 7 | 1 in 7,131 |
| Texas | #1,557 | 11 | 1 in 13,929 |
| Illinois | #1,578 | 5 | 1 in 14,075 |
| California | #2,393 | 8 | 1 in 27,784 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ariah
- 51 spots since 2024 (#585 → #636)
- 236 spots since 2020 (#400 → #636)
- 121 spots since 2015 (#515 → #636)
- Biggest jump: 205 spots in 2016 (#515 → #310)
- Biggest drop: 73 spots in 2024 (#512 → #585)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2016 at #310 (1,046 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,694 girls born in 2016 were named Ariah (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,517 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 52.2% of all girls named Ariah (6,094) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 311 | #2,083 (1998) | #4,051 |
| 2000s | 1,510 | #1,059 (2009) | #1,510 |
| 2010s | 6,094 | #310 (2016) | #606 |
| 2020s | 3,760 | #400 (2020) | #505 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Ariah in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 20,937 of them was named Ariah, which outranked 89.0% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,968Kamya87
- #1,968Kirstyn87
- #1,968Maycee87
- #1,978Ariah86
- #1,978Allana86
- #1,978Anabella86
- #1,978Azalea86
- #1,995Alexzandria85
- #1,995Alijah85
- #1,995Bethanie85
Tied with 16 names at #1,978; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.