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NAMES LIKE ARIEL
Same rise and fall as Ariel, around the same years.
WHERE ARIEL IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Ariel ranked highest in New Mexico (#168) and lowest in Missouri (#1,096). 14 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Ariel name popularity
Ariel has been given to 100,665 babies in the United States since 1892.
It peaked in 1991, when 6,077 babies got the name, and its best rank was #122 in 1991.
In 2025, 1,384 babies were named Ariel (#485 in the country), 77% below the peak. That is down 51% from 2015.
About 78% of babies named Ariel were girls and 22% were boys.
An estimated 98K people named Ariel are alive in the US today, with a median age of 24.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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