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Ariela

#1,263 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Ariela has been given to 3,841 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #1,263 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 212 recorded.

Babies named Ariela, 2025

1 in 18,700

Ariela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ariela: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ariela means

Ariela is a given name.

The naming story behind Ariela

Wikidata records Ariela as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q11686696, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,841 girls were recorded with the name Ariela between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 212 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,141 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,266 in 2020 to #1,263 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,455 in 2015 to #1,263 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.

How common is Ariela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,700
177 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,080
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,263
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ariela 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ariela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arielas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ariela was born before 2014 — so the typical Ariela is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
82.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,841
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 35.0% of all recorded uses (1,345).

Is Ariela 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
−122
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+192
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.5%
Peak was 2024 (212)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,141
2024

Spellings of Ariela

Ariela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 47.3% against Ariela's 0.27%.

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 Ariela is used

Across 2016–2025, Ariela was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 4,545 girls, against 1 in 8,276 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

222 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 4,545
  2. 2Florida1 in 5,263
  3. 3New York1 in 5,556
  4. 4California1 in 6,250
  5. 5Illinois1 in 6,667
  6. 6Texas1 in 6,667
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  8. 8Maryland1 in 12,500

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.

Ariela around the world

Where Ariela 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.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    2006–2025
    #3,597
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1979–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ariela

People whose public names include Ariela, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ariela in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ariela. Linked forms have their own page here.

ArielAriella

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ariela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,263
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3
Best rank ever
#1,141
2024
Peak year
2024
212 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,841
Count in 2025
177

Names similar to Ariela

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

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Names with a curve like Ariela

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

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Sibling names for Ariela

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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