Aryeh
Last seen for girls in 2015 at #16,419 · #1,281 for boys in 2025, 153 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 153 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,495since 1954
Aryeh over time
Rank among boys' names. Aryeh 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 | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,281 | 153 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,303 | 150 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,701 | 99 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,374 | 136 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,339 | 138 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,451 | 119 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,337 | 135 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,465 | 118 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,439 | 119 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,618 | 99 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #1,502 | 110 |
| 2014 | — | #1,679 | 91 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,637 | 94 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,780 | 81 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,752 | 86 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,618 | 98 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,001 | 70 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,912 | 74 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,893 | 71 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,081 | 59 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,731 | 73 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,781 | 67 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,916 | 58 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,346 | 42 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,015 | 50 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,608 | 33 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,157 | 42 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,126 | 41 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,740 | 53 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,758 | 50 | |
| 1994 | — | #2,219 | 36 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,933 | 42 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,002 | 39 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,227 | 32 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,755 | 45 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,953 | 37 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,501 | 50 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,896 | 33 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,917 | 31 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,794 | 33 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,885 | 29 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,748 | 32 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,111 | 25 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,496 | 19 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,808 | 31 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,568 | 18 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,718 | 31 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,458 | 18 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,177 | 21 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,637 | 15 | |
| 1974 | — | #1,747 | 27 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,323 | 16 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,813 | 12 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,415 | 13 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,365 | 7 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,249 | 7 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,780 | 9 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,640 | 6 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aryeh! It came in at #3,827, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1954–1961, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Aryeh is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#311 · 1 in 1,859
- New York#409 · 1 in 2,693
- Maryland#578 · 1 in 4,108
- California#2,531 · 1 in 48,428
Best ever in a state: #159 in New Jersey, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #311 | 24 | 1 in 1,859 |
| New York | #409 | 40 | 1 in 2,693 |
| Maryland | #578 | 7 | 1 in 4,108 |
| California | #2,531 | 5 | 1 in 48,428 |
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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 Aryeh
- 22 spots since 2024 (#1,303 → #1,281)
- 170 spots since 2020 (#1,451 → #1,281)
- 221 spots since 2015 (#1,502 → #1,281)
- Debuted 1954
- Peaked 2025 at #1,281 (153 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,164 boys born in 2025 were named Aryeh (0.01%)
- 30.2% of all boys named Aryeh (1,055) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,827 (1954) | #3,827 |
| 1960s | 63 | #2,415 (1969) | #3,216 |
| 1970s | 182 | #1,718 (1978) | #2,489 |
| 1980s | 320 | #1,501 (1988) | #1,911 |
| 1990s | 413 | #1,740 (1996) | #2,053 |
| 2000s | 662 | #1,618 (2009) | #1,929 |
| 2010s | 1,055 | #1,337 (2019) | #1,559 |
| 2020s | 795 | #1,281 (2025) | #1,408 |
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.
Aryeh in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
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1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 20,241 of them was named Aryeh, which outranked 88.9% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,604Said99
- #1,604Tom99
- #1,604Wiley99
- #1,618Aryeh98
- #1,618Keelan98
- #1,618Lebron98
- #1,618Lenny98
- #1,626Adler97
- #1,626Azriel97
- #1,626Dovid97
Tied with 7 names at #1,618; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.