Ariyan
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #3,036 for boys in 2025, 40 births
Given to boys 60.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 52 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 600since 1998
Ariyan over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #3,036 | 40 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #2,789 | 46 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #3,474 | 33 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 | #3,278 | 36 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #2,523 | 52 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #3,418 | 32 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 | #2,851 | 43 |
| 2018 | #9,806 | 10 | #2,943 | 40 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 | #2,798 | 43 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #3,883 | 27 |
| 2015 | #6,721 | 18 | #3,982 | 26 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #4,263 | 23 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #3,753 | 27 |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #6,095 | 14 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #7,698 | 10 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #7,094 | 11 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | — | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | — | |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,307 | 61 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | — | |
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| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ariyan! It came in at #6,314, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1999–2001, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Ariyan is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,442 · 1 in 12,733
- Texas#1,706 · 1 in 19,014
- Florida#1,758 · 1 in 18,552
- California#2,005 · 1 in 27,054
Best ever in a state: #1,106 in Michigan, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,442 | 7 | 1 in 12,733 |
| Texas | #1,706 | 9 | 1 in 19,014 |
| Florida | #1,758 | 5 | 1 in 18,552 |
| California | #2,005 | 7 | 1 in 27,054 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Ariyan
- 247 spots since 2024 (#2,789 → #3,036)
- 382 spots since 2020 (#3,418 → #3,036)
- 946 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #3,036)
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2021 at #2,523 (52 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 33,644 boys born in 2021 were named Ariyan (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 42,702 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 46.7% of all boys named Ariyan (280) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2008, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 9 | #6,314 (1998) | #6,314 |
| 2000s | 72 | #6,095 (2009) | #8,104 |
| 2010s | 280 | #2,798 (2017) | #4,066 |
| 2020s | 239 | #2,523 (2021) | #3,086 |
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.
Ariyan in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 117,204 of them was named Ariyan, which outranked 56.8% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,250Zarielle15
- #7,250Zayli15
- #7,250Zoa15
- #7,630Ariyan14
- #7,630Aamani14
- #7,630Aarushi14
- #7,630Abriana14
- #8,024Aaila13
- #8,024Aaisha13
- #8,024Aamilah13
Tied with 393 names at #7,630; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 33,644 of them was named Ariyan, which outranked 82.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,499Valentine53
- #2,499Zaylin53
- #2,499Zayvian53
- #2,523Ariyan52
- #2,523Alphonse52
- #2,523Amenadiel52
- #2,523Avett52
- #2,552Alexei51
- #2,552Ayoub51
- #2,552Bradyn51
Tied with 28 names at #2,523; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.