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Arianna vs Ariyanna

American parents have registered 104,225 Ariannas since 1880, against 2,837 Ariyannas. Arianna is still ahead, with 1,323 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arianna Ariyanna

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 2008, when Arianna had 4,431 and Ariyanna had 163.

Side by side

  Arianna Ariyanna
Total US births 104,2252,837
Most in one year 5,282168
Babies in 2025 1,32329
Estimated living today 103,0002,800
Median age today 1515
Peak year 20142010
Best rank 40th girls1,379th girls
Rank in 2025 234th4,661st
First recorded 19631993
Girls / boys 104,152 / 732,837 / 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 Arianna Ariyanna
England and Wales 2,7129

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 Ariyanna.