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Ariele

#15,177 in 2025Girls' name

Lion of God

Ariele has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #15,177 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Ariele, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ariele: meaning, origin, and history

Lion of God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ariele means

Ariele means “lion of God”, associated with ari'él.

Origin, language, and formation

Ariele is used in Italian and Portuguese.

Ariele comes through Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arielle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Ariele is pronounced /aˈrjɛ.le/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 583 girls were recorded with the name Ariele between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 1991; its best national rank was #2,383 in 1991.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #11,948 in 2015 to #15,177 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 Ariele?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,177
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ariele 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ariele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arieles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ariele was born before 1992 — so the typical Ariele is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
583
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (254).

Is Ariele 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
−2,888
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,229
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.4%
Peak was 1991 (53)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,383
1991

Spellings of Ariele

Ariele is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 30.8% against Ariele's 0.13%.

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 Ariele is used

Across 1910–2025, Ariele was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 950,639 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

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. Ariele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ariele around the world

Where Ariele 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
    2007–2023
    #3,219
    in 2023
  • France
    1947–1991
    #3,049
    in 1991
  • Canada
    1994–2018
    #2,940
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1993–1993
    #712
    in 1993

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

Ariele by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,177
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#2,383
1991
Peak year
1991
53 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
583
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Ariele

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

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Sibling names for Ariele

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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