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Arielle vs Arisa

American parents have registered 30,921 Arielles since 1880, against 887 Arisas. Arielle is still ahead, with 618 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Arielle Arisa

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 1976, when Arielle had 26 and Arisa had 7.

Side by side

  Arielle Arisa
Total US births 30,921887
Most in one year 1,63132
Babies in 2025 61832
Estimated living today 30,000880
Median age today 1919
Peak year 19911992
Best rank 183rd girls3,419th girls
Rank in 2025 485th4,352nd
First recorded 19621976
Girls / boys 30,870 / 51887 / 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 Arisa
France 3,9005
England and Wales 1,042173
Poland 42

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 Arisa.