Arie

Where Arie comes from

Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְיֵה (aryé, “lion”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Arie
  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #560
    11 babies named Arie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1883
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #920.
  4. 1948
    Arie Haan born
    Dutch footballer and manager
  5. 1952
    Arie Schans born
    Dutch association football player and manager
  6. 2001
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Arie Haan · Dutch footballer and manager, born 1948
  • Arie Schans · Dutch association football player and manager, born 1952
  • Arie den Hartog · Dutch road bicycle racer, 1941–2018
  • Arie van Vliet · Dutch sprint cyclist, 1916–2001
  • Arie de Jong · volapükist from the Netherlands, 1865–1957

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.