Ariella
#174 for girls in 2025, 1,756 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 1,802 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 22,371since 1967
Ariella over time
Rank among girls' names. Ariella has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #174 | 1,756 | — | |
| 2024 | #195 | 1,566 | — | |
| 2023 | #184 | 1,619 | — | |
| 2022 | #183 | 1,633 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #171 | 1,701 | — | |
| 2020 | #154 | 1,802 | — | |
| 2019 | #216 | 1,422 | — | |
| 2018 | #283 | 1,171 | — | |
| 2017 | #293 | 1,104 | — | |
| 2016 | #338 | 984 | — | |
| 2015 | #400 | 813 | — | |
| 2014 | #386 | 846 | — | |
| 2013 | #429 | 710 | — | |
| 2012 | #543 | 553 | — | |
| 2011 | #628 | 455 | — | |
| 2010 | #727 | 385 | — | |
| 2009 | #859 | 324 | — | |
| 2008 | #913 | 300 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,059 | 247 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,026 | 249 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,181 | 195 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,413 | 147 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,272 | 164 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,394 | 138 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,403 | 135 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,504 | 122 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,341 | 132 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,312 | 135 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,390 | 122 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,438 | 114 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,273 | 132 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,495 | 105 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,485 | 107 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,507 | 104 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,248 | 135 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,237 | 134 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,787 | 75 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,911 | 64 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,199 | 49 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,052 | 52 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,382 | 40 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,156 | 45 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,770 | 33 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,986 | 29 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 | — | |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 | — | |
| 1977 | #3,911 | 18 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,963 | 16 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #4,155 | 14 | — | |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 | — | |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Ariella! It came in at #6,042, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Ariella is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#449 · 1 in 2,806
- New Jersey#543 · 1 in 3,796
- Massachusetts#619 · 1 in 5,300
- Florida#996 · 1 in 8,150
- Illinois#1,127 · 1 in 9,988
Best ever in a state: #35 in New Mexico, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #449 | 36 | 1 in 2,806 |
| New Jersey | #543 | 11 | 1 in 3,796 |
| Massachusetts | #619 | 6 | 1 in 5,300 |
| Florida | #996 | 9 | 1 in 8,150 |
| Illinois | #1,127 | 7 | 1 in 9,988 |
| California | #1,180 | 21 | 1 in 10,612 |
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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 Ariella
- 21 spots since 2024 (#195 → #174)
- 20 spots since 2020 (#154 → #174)
- 226 spots since 2015 (#400 → #174)
- Biggest jump: 146 spots in 2008 (#1,059 → #913)
- Biggest drop: 17 spots in 2021 (#154 → #171)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2020 at #154 (1,802 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 2008–2025
- Highest: 1 in 897 girls born in 2020 were named Ariella (0.11%)
- Latest: 1 in 915 girls born in 2025 (0.11%)
- 45.0% of all girls named Ariella (10,077) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #5,974 (1969) | #6,008 |
| 1970s | 145 | #3,283 (1978) | #4,435 |
| 1980s | 452 | #1,787 (1989) | #2,386 |
| 1990s | 1,220 | #1,237 (1990) | #1,373 |
| 2000s | 2,021 | #859 (2009) | #1,202 |
| 2010s | 8,443 | #216 (2019) | #424 |
| 2020s | 10,077 | #154 (2020) | #177 |
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.
Ariella in 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 14,268 of them was named Ariella, which outranked 91.4% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,386Makena123
- #1,386Marla123
- #1,386Taelor123
- #1,390Ariella122
- #1,390Ayleen122
- #1,390Laci122
- #1,390Magaly122
- #1,395Bailie121
- #1,395Ileana121
- #1,395Rubi121
Tied with 4 names at #1,390; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.