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Ari vs Arianny

American parents have registered 28,254 Aris since 1880, against 2,013 Ariannys. Ari is still ahead, with 1,284 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ari against Arianny, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ari Arianny

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ari has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1958 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2011, when Ari had 645 and Arianny had 149.

Side by side

  Ari Arianny
Total US births 28,2542,013
Most in one year 1,752159
Babies in 2025 1,284100
Estimated living today 28,0002,000
Median age today 1010
Peak year 20222013
Best rank 328th boys1,425th girls
Rank in 2025 393rd1,927th
First recorded 19581991
Girls / boys 7,662 / 20,5922,013 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Ari Arianny
France 7705

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ari and Arianny.