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Arielle vs Ariona

American parents have registered 30,921 Arielles since 1880, against 949 Arionas. Arielle is still ahead, with 618 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arielle against Ariona, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arielle Ariona

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

Arielle has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2007, when Arielle had 493 and Ariona had 57.

Side by side

  Arielle Ariona
Total US births 30,921949
Most in one year 1,63157
Babies in 2025 618under 5
Estimated living today 30,000940
Median age today 1920
Peak year 19912007
Best rank 183rd girls3,047th girls
Rank in 2025 485thunranked
First recorded 19621987
Girls / boys 30,870 / 51949 / 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 Arielle Ariona
England and Wales 1,0427

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: Arielle and Ariona.