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Ariana vs Ariyonna

American parents have registered 120,580 Arianas since 1880, against 540 Ariyonnas. Ariana is still ahead, with 2,219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ariana Ariyonna

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 2012, when Ariana had 3,588 and Ariyonna had 38.

Side by side

  Ariana Ariyonna
Total US births 120,580540
Most in one year 5,51438
Babies in 2025 2,2196
Estimated living today 119,000540
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20142012
Best rank 37th girls3,988th girls
Rank in 2025 128th13,208th
First recorded 19571998
Girls / boys 120,380 / 200540 / 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: Ariana and Ariyonna.