Arial

#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births

Peak · girls
1991 · 69 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,197
since 1981

Arial over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Arial has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201992peak #1,996, 1991girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#10,9178
2024—
2023—
2022#12,2437
2021#11,1468
2020#11,0908
2019#6,69817
2018#9,15111
2017#8,29913
2016#6,40119
2015#4,72529
2014#4,17835
2013#6,25520
2012#6,11021
2011#6,85518
2010#4,10736
2009#5,09728
2008#4,88230
2007#4,67531
2006#3,13653
2005#3,87637
2004#3,56641
2003#3,47241
2002#2,49763
2001#3,00947
2000#3,16943
1999#3,09942
1998#2,75648
1997#2,51151
1996#2,71445
1995#3,15236
1994#4,11525
1993#3,35133
1992#3,09137
1991#1,99669
1990#2,60045
1989#5,83614
1988#6,27712
1987#5,07415
1986#5,75712
1985#5,34813
1984#6,29110
1983#4,88414
1982#8,2247
1981#10,4115
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First appearance
1981

The first year at least five girls were named Arial! It came in at #10,411, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2023–2024, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Arial is popular in 1992

No state had 5 or more girls named Arial in 1992, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arial
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 173 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,917)
  • 6,192 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #10,917)
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1981
  • Peaked 1991 at #1,996 (69 births)
  • Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,174
  • Highest: 1 in 27,174 girls born in 1991 were named Arial (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 36.0% of all girls named Arial (431) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s102#4,884 (1983)#6,456
1990s431#1,996 (1991)#2,939
2000s414#2,497 (2002)#3,738
2010s219#4,107 (2010)#6,278
2020s31#10,917 (2025)#11,349

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.

Arial in 1992

girls
#3,091
37 births · 1 in 49,836 girls

Top girls' names in 1992

  1. #1Ashley38,460
  2. #2Jessica38,361
  3. #3Amanda25,039
  4. #4Brittany24,983
  5. #5Sarah24,634
  6. #6Samantha24,407
  7. #7Emily21,835
  8. #8Stephanie19,680
  9. #9Elizabeth19,035
  10. #10Megan17,842
  11. #3,091Arial37
More about 1992

girls

1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 49,836 of them was named Arial, which outranked 80.2% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arial
  1. #3,036Tomi38
  2. #3,036Toya38
  3. #3,036Ximena38
  4. #3,091Arial37
  5. #3,091Adam37
  6. #3,091Ambra37
  7. #3,091Asheley37
  8. #3,144Amparo36
  9. #3,144Angella36
  10. #3,144Anh36

Tied with 52 names at #3,091; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1991
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,282Darian#2,989 → #707
  2. ↑ 1,958Payton#2,660 → #702
  3. ↑ 1,450Peyton#2,034 → #584
  4. ↑ 1,115Chandler#1,656 → #541
  5. ↑ 1,080Brianda#1,857 → #777
Fallers
  1. ↓ 855Rebeccah#1,000 → #1,855
  2. ↓ 725Ieshia#717 → #1,442
  3. ↓ 502Miesha#997 → #1,499
  4. ↓ 470Unknown#794 → #1,264
  5. ↓ 356Phylicia#928 → #1,284

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1992 →