Arian

Where Arian comes from

Arian hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1970
    First appearance
    #3,521 among boys, 8 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Arian Foster born
    American football player
  3. 2000
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2003
    Arian Salimi born
    Iranian taekwondo practitioner
  5. 2013
    Peak, #538
    494 babies named Arian — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #915.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arian Salimi · Iranian taekwondo practitioner, born 2003
  • Arian Foster · American football player, born 1986
  • Arian Nachbar · German speed skater, born 1977
  • Arian Kabashi · Kosovan footballer, born 1996
  • Arian Çani · Albanian journalist and tv host, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.