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Ari vs Ariebella

American parents have registered 28,254 Aris since 1880, against 52 Ariebellas. Ari is still ahead, with 1,284 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ari Ariebella

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 2013, when Ari had 932 and Ariebella had 15.

Side by side

  Ari Ariebella
Total US births 28,25452
Most in one year 1,75215
Babies in 2025 1,2846
Estimated living today 28,00050
Median age today 109
Peak year 20222013
Best rank 328th boys7,748th girls
Rank in 2025 393rd13,208th
First recorded 19582013
Girls / boys 7,662 / 20,59252 / 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.

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