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Ariana vs Arisbeth

American parents have registered 120,580 Arianas since 1880, against 2,024 Arisbeths. Ariana is still ahead, with 2,219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ariana against Arisbeth, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ariana Arisbeth

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

Ariana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1957 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Ariana had 2,219 and Arisbeth had 313.

Side by side

  Ariana Arisbeth
Total US births 120,5802,024
Most in one year 5,514313
Babies in 2025 2,219313
Estimated living today 119,0002,000
Median age today 163
Peak year 20142025
Best rank 37th girls862nd girls
Rank in 2025 128th862nd
First recorded 19571991
Girls / boys 120,380 / 2002,024 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Arianas alive today are over 16; half the Arisbeths are over 3. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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