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Arista

Girls' name

Ear of grain

Arista has been given to 588 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Arista, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arista: meaning, origin, and history

Ear of grain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arista means

Arista means “ear of grain”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Arista is used in Astronomy.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ə.ˈɹɪs.tə/ for Arista.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 588 girls were recorded with the name Arista between 1960 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2009; its best national rank was #4,380 in 1994.

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 Arista?

Arista had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arista 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arista. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aristas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arista was born before 2002 — so the typical Arista is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
588
People you could plausibly meet
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2000s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (174).

Is Arista 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2009 (31)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,380
1994

Spellings of Arista

Arista is not the most common spelling — Rita is, with 17.6% against Arista's 0.04%.

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 Arista is used

Across 1910–2025, Arista was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 808,391 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Arista has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arista around the world

Where Arista 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
    2021–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1904–1959
    #1,321
    in 1959
  • Canada
    1993–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arista by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,380
1994
Peak year
2009
31 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
588
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arista

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

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Sibling names for Arista

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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