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Ariya

#615 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Aria

Ariya has been given to 7,400 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #615 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 599 recorded.

Babies named Ariya, 2025

1 in 6,960

Ariya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ariya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Aria

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ariya means

Ariya is a variant of Aria.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Ariya is a variant of Aria. Aria has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Ariya is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aria.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,370 girls were recorded with the name Ariya between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 599 in 2019; its best national rank was #519 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #579 in 2020 to #615 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #693 in 2015 to #615 in 2025.

In the United States, 30 boys were recorded with the name Ariya between 1993 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,463 in 2006.

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 Ariya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,960
476 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,380
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#615
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,829 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ariya 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,829 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ariya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ariyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ariya was born before 2019 — so the typical Ariya is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
99.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,370
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 47.7% of all recorded uses (3,512).

Is Ariya 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
−58
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−36
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+78
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.16×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
79.5%
Peak was 2019 (599)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#519
2019

Spellings of Ariya

Ariya is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 18.9% against Ariya's 0.25%.

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 Ariya is used

Across 2016–2025, Ariya was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 1,852 girls, against 1 in 2,767 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 7,143).

1454 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 1,852
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 1,923
  3. 3Georgia1 in 1,961
  4. 4Maryland1 in 2,128
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 2,128
  6. 6Florida1 in 2,222
  7. 7Nevada1 in 2,222
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 2,273

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.

Geographically, Ariya is used remarkably evenly across the country — more concentrated than 6% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ariya around the world

Where Ariya 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
    2003–2025
    #346
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2025
    #632
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2025
    #334
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2013–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #3,602
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #526
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Ariya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#615
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 36
Best rank ever
#519
2019
Peak year
2019
599 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,370
Count in 2025
476

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,463
2006
Peak year
2006
10 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ariya

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

AriahArikaAriesAriyahAriePriyaArielaKaiyaAmiyaArianeAriArianAliyaMaiyaArinArialArinaArissaAriadneSaniyaMiyaArianneAriadnaArisa

Names with a curve like Ariya

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

MonroeEmerieRominaAdleyElliottEllisAviannaKoraRemyZayleeKatalinaVienna

Sibling names for Ariya

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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