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Arianna vs Ariyah

American parents have registered 104,225 Ariannas since 1880, against 11,120 Ariyahs. Arianna is still ahead, with 1,323 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arianna Ariyah

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

Arianna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1963 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Arianna had 1,323 and Ariyah had 836.

Side by side

  Arianna Ariyah
Total US births 104,22511,120
Most in one year 5,282927
Babies in 2025 1,323836
Estimated living today 103,00011,000
Median age today 156
Peak year 20142023
Best rank 40th girls335th girls
Rank in 2025 234th366th
First recorded 19631998
Girls / boys 104,152 / 7311,120 / 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 Ariannas alive today are over 15; half the Ariyahs are over 6. That is 9 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 Ariyah
England and Wales 2,712774
Scotland 52365
France 40510
Ireland 35332
Northern Ireland 16418

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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Related comparisons

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