Ariela
#1,261 for girls in 2025, 177 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 212 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,841since 1971
Ariela over time
Rank among girls' names. Ariela 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 | #1,261 | 177 |
| 2024 | #1,140 | 212 |
| 2023 | #1,361 | 165 |
| 2022 | #1,285 | 185 |
| 2021 | #1,405 | 155 |
| 2020 | #1,264 | 177 |
| 2019 | #1,357 | 166 |
| 2018 | #1,595 | 134 |
| 2017 | #1,478 | 151 |
| 2016 | #1,516 | 149 |
| 2015 | #1,454 | 158 |
| 2014 | #1,534 | 142 |
| 2013 | #1,775 | 115 |
| 2012 | #1,807 | 112 |
| 2011 | #1,927 | 103 |
| 2010 | #1,783 | 115 |
| 2009 | #1,792 | 120 |
| 2008 | #1,865 | 114 |
| 2007 | #2,509 | 74 |
| 2006 | #2,081 | 94 |
| 2005 | #2,296 | 78 |
| 2004 | #2,155 | 83 |
| 2003 | #2,062 | 86 |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 |
| 2001 | #2,844 | 51 |
| 2000 | #2,974 | 47 |
| 1999 | #2,935 | 45 |
| 1998 | #2,530 | 54 |
| 1997 | #2,934 | 41 |
| 1996 | #2,630 | 47 |
| 1995 | #3,087 | 37 |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 |
| 1993 | #3,221 | 35 |
| 1992 | #3,036 | 38 |
| 1991 | #2,620 | 46 |
| 1990 | #2,850 | 40 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
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| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ariela! It came in at #7,388, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Ariela is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#632 · 1 in 2,822
- Massachusetts#761 · 1 in 4,005
- Texas#840 · 1 in 4,587
- Florida#959 · 1 in 5,423
- California#965 · 1 in 5,776
Best ever in a state: #409 in New Mexico, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arizona | #632 | 10 | 1 in 2,822 |
| Massachusetts | #761 | 6 | 1 in 4,005 |
| Texas | #840 | 35 | 1 in 4,587 |
| Florida | #959 | 16 | 1 in 5,423 |
| California | #965 | 28 | 1 in 5,776 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,108 | 7 | 1 in 6,670 |
| New York | #1,235 | 11 | 1 in 7,121 |
| Illinois | #1,240 | 6 | 1 in 7,388 |
| North Carolina | #1,437 | 5 | 1 in 9,297 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ariela
- 121 spots since 2024 (#1,140 → #1,261)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#1,264 → #1,261)
- 193 spots since 2015 (#1,454 → #1,261)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2024 at #1,140 (212 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 7,642 girls born in 2024 were named Ariela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,081 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.0% of all girls named Ariela (1,345) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 35 | #4,626 (1979) | #6,921 |
| 1980s | 168 | #3,431 (1983) | #5,034 |
| 1990s | 415 | #2,530 (1998) | #2,929 |
| 2000s | 807 | #1,792 (2009) | #2,316 |
| 2010s | 1,345 | #1,357 (2019) | #1,623 |
| 2020s | 1,071 | #1,140 (2024) | #1,286 |
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.
Ariela in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
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1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 9,081 of them was named Ariela, which outranked 92.7% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,258Aarya178
- #1,258Liz178
- #1,258Paola178
- #1,261Ariela177
- #1,261Alba177
- #1,261Areli177
- #1,261Heather177
- #1,272Addie176
- #1,272Ashly176
- #1,272Christine176
Tied with 10 names at #1,261; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.