Arial
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,197since 1981
Arial over time
Rank among girls' names. Arial has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #4,725 | 29 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #3,136 | 53 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 |
| 2003 | #3,472 | 41 |
| 2002 | #2,497 | 63 |
| 2001 | #3,009 | 47 |
| 2000 | #3,169 | 43 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 |
| 1997 | #2,511 | 51 |
| 1996 | #2,714 | 45 |
| 1995 | #3,152 | 36 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #3,351 | 33 |
| 1992 | #3,091 | 37 |
| 1991 | #1,996 | 69 |
| 1990 | #2,600 | 45 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
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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 1993
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#1,909 · 1 in 22,837
Best ever in a state: #615 in Minnesota, 1996.
Show every state
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| Texas | #1,909 | 6 | 1 in 22,837 |
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See more about Arial
- 173 spots since 2020 (#11,090 → #10,917)
- 6,192 spots since 2015 (#4,725 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1981
- Peaked 1991 at #1,996 (69 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Arial (431) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 102 | #4,884 (1983) | #6,456 |
| 1990s | 431 | #1,996 (1991) | #2,939 |
| 2000s | 414 | #2,497 (2002) | #3,738 |
| 2010s | 219 | #4,107 (2010) | #6,278 |
| 2020s | 31 | #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 1993
Top girls' names in 1993
More about 1993
girls
1,809,072 girls got a published name in 1993; 1 in 54,820 of them was named Arial, which outranked 78.8% of the 15,801 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,290Terah34
- #3,290Toby34
- #3,290Zenobia34
- #3,351Arial33
- #3,351Ajah33
- #3,351Asiah33
- #3,351Azalea33
- #3,422Aeriel32
- #3,422Ahsley32
- #3,422Aleasha32
Tied with 70 names at #3,351; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.