Arian

#8,860 for girls in 2025, 11 births · #965 for boys in 2025, 238 births
Given to boys 81.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
2013 · 494 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
6,712
since 1970

Arian over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #2,438, 1999peak #538, 2013girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#8,86011#965238
2024#7,96713#862280
2023#6,16919#827296
2022#7,28115#900259
2021#5,09125#887260
2020#6,32518#861263
2019#4,16234#915240
2018#5,00726#872250
2017#4,69529#843262
2016#3,92338#750324
2015#3,84239#714347
2014#3,48645#678373
2013#3,26749#538494
2012#6,87218#652365
2011#5,20726#924217
2010#4,60831#1,195150
2009#2,67268#1,191151
2008#4,64732#1,334129
2007#6,09322#1,332127
2006#4,95328#1,350120
2005#3,87637#1,411104
2004#4,38731#1,49190
2003#3,59039#1,282110
2002#2,85452#1,40693
2001#3,41739#1,265105
2000#2,97447#1,30099
1999#2,43859#1,96649
1998#2,92944#1,64263
1997#2,69546#1,85950
1996#3,50532#1,70555
1995#2,48651#1,78249
1994#2,87741#2,04140
1993#3,05238#1,90743
1992#3,26734#1,91442
1991#3,09736#1,57354
1990#3,02237#1,61551
1989#3,78426#1,91938
1988#4,30820#2,03531
1987#4,66017#1,97431
1986#3,55424#2,00729
1985#3,32826#2,07127
1984#3,52723#1,79631
1983#4,88414#1,65135
1982#3,89820#1,99927
1981#5,25413#1,86530
1980#3,85320#2,28422
1979#4,05218#1,75332
1978#3,19624#2,06823
1977#5,88810#1,67032
1976#6,0489#2,17721
1975#5,16111#2,54016
1974#5,01111#2,94612
1973#3,97115#3,6948
1972—#3,15210
1971#4,53412#3,9637
1970#4,76111#3,5218
1969#7,4715—
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First appearance
1970

The first year at least five boys were named Arian! It came in at #3,521, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1970–1973, when fewer than 11 boys a year got the name.

Where Arian is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more boys named Arian in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arian
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 103 spots since 2024 (#862 → #965)
  • 104 spots since 2020 (#861 → #965)
  • 251 spots since 2015 (#714 → #965)
  • Biggest jump: 272 spots in 2012 (#924 → #652)
  • Biggest drop: 140 spots in 2014 (#538 → #678)
Rise & fade · boys
43 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1970
  • Peaked 2013 at #538 (494 births)
  • Births halved by 2019, 6 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 15 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 2011–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,829
  • Highest: 1 in 3,829 boys born in 2013 were named Arian (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 7,177 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 45.0% of all boys named Arian (3,022) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2000
  • Mostly girls until 1999, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s169#1,670 (1977)#2,748
1980s301#1,651 (1983)#1,960
1990s496#1,573 (1991)#1,800
2000s1,128#1,191 (2009)#1,336
2010s3,022#538 (2013)#808
2020s1,596#827 (2023)#884

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arian in 1970

girls
#4,761
11 births · 1 in 158,922 girls
boys
#3,521
8 births · 1 in 232,279 boys

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #4,761Arian11

Top boys' names in 1970

  1. #1Michael85,266
  2. #2James61,735
  3. #3David61,728
  4. #4John58,491
  5. #5Robert57,177
  6. #6Christopher41,747
  7. #7William38,887
  8. #8Brian31,917
  9. #9Mark31,461
  10. #10Richard30,442
  11. #3,521Arian8
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 158,922 of them was named Arian, which outranked 49.1% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arian
  1. #4,492Wynetta12
  2. #4,492Ximena12
  3. #4,492Zonya12
  4. #4,761Arian11
  5. #4,761Adraine11
  6. #4,761Adrea11
  7. #4,761Adrena11
  8. #5,061Adair10
  9. #5,061Ahna10
  10. #5,061Akiko10

Tied with 299 names at #4,761; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,541Tanisha#2,515 → #974
  2. ↑ 1,194India#1,955 → #761
  3. ↑ 695Shay#1,648 → #953
  4. ↑ 685Terra#1,303 → #618
  5. ↑ 669Dyan#1,648 → #979
Fallers
  1. ↓ 385Cinnamon#698 → #1,083
  2. ↓ 306Kaye#932 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 303Luanne#990 → #1,293
  4. ↓ 273Laureen#845 → #1,118
  5. ↓ 273Lesia#965 → #1,238

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

boys

1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 232,279 of them was named Arian, which outranked 35.2% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arian
  1. #3,282Yon9
  2. #3,282Zac9
  3. #3,282Zedrick9
  4. #3,521Arian8
  5. #3,521Abie8
  6. #3,521Adams8
  7. #3,521Adriel8
  8. #3,836Acey7
  9. #3,836Adin7
  10. #3,836Adren7

Tied with 314 names at #3,521; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,783Jermaine#4,404 → #621
  2. ↑ 1,000Dax#1,861 → #861
  3. ↑ 842Jeramy#1,810 → #968
  4. ↑ 639Branden#1,570 → #931
  5. ↑ 407Braden#1,396 → #989
Fallers
  1. ↓ 593Jemal#549 → #1,142
  2. ↓ 307Karen#885 → #1,192
  3. ↓ 307Merlin#885 → #1,192
  4. ↓ 302Dennie#920 → #1,222
  5. ↓ 276Luciano#931 → #1,207

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

See the top 100 for 1970 →