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Arianna vs Arie

American parents have registered 104,225 Ariannas since 1880, against 6,736 Aries. Arianna is still ahead, with 1,323 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arianna Arie

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

Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Arie for 92 years and Arianna for 53 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Arianna Arie
Total US births 104,2256,736
Most in one year 5,282240
Babies in 2025 1,323142
Estimated living today 103,0004,900
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20142018
Best rank 40th girls1,391st girls
Rank in 2025 234th2,298th
First recorded 19631880
Girls / boys 104,152 / 734,157 / 2,579

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 Ariannas alive today are over 15; half the Aries are over 13. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Arianna Arie
England and Wales 2,712171
France 405560
Scotland 5236

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: Arianna and Arie.