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Aryeh

#1,281 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Arye

Aryeh has been given to 3,500 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #1,281 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 153 recorded.

Babies named Aryeh, 2025

1 in 21,700

Aryeh over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aryeh: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Arye

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aryeh means

Aryeh is a alternate transcription of Arye.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arye.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,495 boys were recorded with the name Aryeh between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 153 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,281 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,451 in 2020 to #1,281 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,502 in 2015 to #1,281 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Aryeh between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2015; its best national rank was #16,731 in 2015.

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 Aryeh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,700
153 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,281
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,020 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aryeh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 15,020 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aryeh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aryehs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aryeh was born before 2011 — so the typical Aryeh is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,495
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (1,055).

Is Aryeh 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
+22
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+170
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+221
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.39×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (153)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,281
2025

Spellings of Aryeh

Aryeh is not the most common spelling — Ariel is, with 22.8% against Aryeh's 3.6%.

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 Aryeh is used

Across 2016–2025, Aryeh was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 901 boys, against 1 in 7,583 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

0111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 901
  2. 2New York1 in 2,041
  3. 3Maryland1 in 16,667
  4. 4California1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Aryeh around the world

Where Aryeh 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
    1996–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2023
    #6,590
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Aryeh

People whose public names include Aryeh, 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.

Aryeh in other languages

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

ArieArje

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

Aryeh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,281
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 170
Best rank ever
#1,281
2025
Peak year
2025
153 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,495
Count in 2025
153

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#16,731
2015
Peak year
2015
5 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aryeh

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

AryanAryaAryavAryeArynAryonAryaanAryAryashAryenAryamanAryusAryelAryanshAryamAryesAryasAryoAryaveerAryianArykAryionArysAryton

Names with a curve like Aryeh

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

DovEliyahuNikolaYakovDovidIlanIsmailUmarTzviAvrahamAkivaShalom

Sibling names for Aryeh

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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