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Ariana vs Aryanna

American parents have registered 120,580 Arianas since 1880, against 9,435 Aryannas. Ariana is still ahead, with 2,219 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Ariana Aryanna

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 Aryanna had 571.

Side by side

  Ariana Aryanna
Total US births 120,5809,435
Most in one year 5,514571
Babies in 2025 2,21986
Estimated living today 119,0009,400
Median age today 1615
Peak year 20142012
Best rank 37th girls530th girls
Rank in 2025 128th2,153rd
First recorded 19571988
Girls / boys 120,380 / 2009,435 / 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 Ariana Aryanna
England and Wales 6,108133
France 1,60550
Ireland 3873

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: Ariana and Aryanna.