Ariel
Ariel is ranked 299th among girls in 2024 (1,051 births). Its best rank was 66th, in 1991.
- Rank in 2024
- #299down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0510.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 19915,411 births
- Best rank
- #66in 1991
- Since 1892
- 99,253people given the name
The story in the numbers
77,823 girls have been named Ariel in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1991, with 5,411 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 132 → 299).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 1990s alone account for 36%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Ariel is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are boys (21,430), most of them born around 1991.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ariel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 15 | |
| 1900s | 52 | |
| 1910s | 156 | |
| 1920s | 129 | |
| 1930s | 83 | |
| 1940s | 86 | |
| 1950s | 63 | |
| 1960s | 139 | |
| 1970s | 717 | |
| 1980s | 6,353 | |
| 1990s | 28,142 | |
| 2000s | 16,265 | |
| 2010s | 19,367 | |
| 2020s | 6,256 |
In 1991, its biggest year
Ariel was the 66th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1991 were Ashley, Jessica, Brittany, Amanda and Samantha. See all of 1991.
Names that rose and fell with Ariel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Briapeak 1993
- Alyxpeak 1993
- Moriahpeak 1992
- Beccapeak 1993
- Luceropeak 1994
- Symonepeak 1991
- Lakenpeak 1991
- Stormiepeak 1991
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.