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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ariel

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#356

down −56 places

2025 births

851

down −204 births

All-time births

78,697

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1991
5,411 births
Best rank
#66
in 1991
First recorded
1892
#1,470 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2002
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
122 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19915,411#66Peak
  2. 19923,961#87
  3. 19903,607#94
  4. 19932,707#121
  5. 20142,445#132

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #66 in 1991 · peak births 5,411 in 1991

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 22% boys■ 78% girls

21,968 boys · 78,697 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ariel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.