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Aranza

#1,486 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Arantza

Aranza has been given to 3,395 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,486 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 476 recorded.

Babies named Aranza, 2025

1 in 23,000

Aranza over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aranza: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arantza

place names

What Aranza means

Aranza is a form of Arantza.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Aranza → Arantza. The family’s meaning is “thornbush, thorn”, recorded in the naming reference for Arantza.

Origin, language, and formation

Aranza is used in Spanish. Its origins include place names.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arantza and Aránzazu.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Aranza is pronounced /aˈɾanθa/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,395 girls were recorded with the name Aranza between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 476 in 2014; its best national rank was #611 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,362 in 2020 to #1,486 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #933 in 2015 to #1,486 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aranza?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,000
144 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 11,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,486
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aranza sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aranza. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aranzas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aranza was born before 2016 — so the typical Aranza is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,395
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (1,927).

Is Aranza rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−28
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−124
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−553
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.3%
Peak was 2014 (476)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
86.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#611
2014

Spellings of Aranza

Aranza is not the most common spelling — Amanda is, with 65.4% against Aranza's 0.28%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aranza is used

Across 2016–2025, Aranza was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,778 girls, against 1 in 6,245 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

136 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,778
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,857
  3. 3California1 in 4,167
  4. 4Illinois1 in 6,250
  5. 5Georgia1 in 7,692
  6. 6Florida1 in 8,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 9,091
  8. 8Nevada1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aranza around the world

Where Aranza ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2020–2020
    #2,936
    in 2020

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Aranza by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 124
Best rank ever
#611
2014
Peak year
2014
476 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,395
Count in 2025
144

Names similar to Aranza

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArayahArayaAralynArantzaAracelyArainaArabelleLorenzaAralynnAraiyaAraAraynaAraceliArantxaAracelisVincenzaAradhyaArabelAraylaAradiaAraseliAraeyaArahKenza

Names with a curve like Aranza

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aranza, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MilahAdilynnAriadneItzayanaAddilynnKinzleyEmmarieAddalynnSailorEvalynnRaylynnAvalynn

Sibling names for Aranza

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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