Ariane
About 3,782 American babies have been named Ariane since 1952, most of them around 1978. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 3,700 Arianes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ariane boys named Ariane
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,782
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1978
- Best rank
- 887th
- Rank in 2025
- 6,325th
- First recorded
- 1952
- Girls / boys
- 3,777 / 5
How old the living Arianes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,782 babies given the name since 1952, about 3,700 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 960 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek, French
From French Ariane, from Ancient Greek Ἀριάδνη.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Arianes
- Princess Ariane of the Netherlands (born 2007)youngest daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
- Ariane Mnouchkine (born 1939)French theater and film director, theater director and author
- Ariane Ascaride (born 1954)French actress
- Ariane Friedrich (born 1984)German high jumper
- Ariane Labed (born 1984)French actress
- Ariane Hingst (born 1979)German association football player
- Ariane Rädler (born 1995)Austrian alpine ski racer
- Ariane Sherine (born 1980)British writer
People named Ariane with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ariane is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ariane is most concentrated in Louisiana (6.4×), California (2.8×), New York (2.2×), Florida (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1978
The most popular girls’ names the year Ariane peaked:
Ariane elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Ariane | 11,905 | 160th |
| Belgium girls | Ariane | 370 | 447th |
| England and Wales girls | Ariane | 327 | 1,036th |
| Switzerland girls | Ariane | 313 | 278th |
| Scotland girls | Ariane | 31 | 480th |
| France boys | Ariane | 15 | 6,671st |
| Poland girls | Ariane | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ariane: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Ariane | 192 | 0.015% | 231st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ariane | 117 | 0.027% | 165th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Ariane | 2 | 0.003% | 162nd |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Ariane | 2 | 0.054% | 10th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ariane is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 31 of them.
Ariane: rank by region
In 2025, Ariane was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ariane | 836 | 5 |
| Wallonia | Ariane | 242 | 11 |
| Brussels | Ariane | 244 | 5 |
In 2018, Ariane was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Ariane | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ariane appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (244th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ariane by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 10 | 398th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ariane among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Ariane | 10 | 33 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ariane lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 2,035 women called Ariane were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bizkaia | Ariane | 808 | 1.342 | 156 |
| Araba/Álava | Ariane | 155 | 0.893 | 212 |
| Gipuzkoa | Ariane | 286 | 0.763 | 223 |
| Navarra | Ariane | 148 | 0.429 | 306 |
| Cantabria | Ariane | 39 | 0.127 | 598 |
| Rioja, La | Ariane | 13 | 0.078 | 935 |
Listed in 32 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 20 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ariane against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.