Ariana
Ariana is ranked 103rd among girls in 2024 (2,569 births). Its best rank was 37th, in 2014.
- Rank in 2024
- #103down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2,5690.16% of girls
- Peak year
- 20145,502 births
- Best rank
- #37in 2014
- Since 1957
- 118,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
118,125 girls have been named Ariana in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 5,502 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 37 → 103).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 35%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ariana | |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | |
| 1960s | 154 | |
| 1970s | 788 | |
| 1980s | 4,685 | |
| 1990s | 18,862 | |
| 2000s | 38,007 | |
| 2010s | 41,331 | |
| 2020s | 14,293 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Ariana was the 37th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Ariana
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Viktoriapeak 2015
- Miyapeak 2007
- Parispeak 2004
- Ansleypeak 2011
- Jewelspeak 2015
- Janellypeak 2018
- Oriannapeak 2013
- Annelisepeak 2011
Other spellings in the data
- Arianna102,811 ever
- Aryanna9,343 ever
- Aryana7,236 ever
- Ariyana3,372 ever
- Ariyanna2,808 ever
- Arriana1,573 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.