Ariah

What Ariah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ariah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #515 in 2015 to #636 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ariah?

US: Falling: down from #515 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1057 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 1,046 girls got the name (#310 that year). First in the US records in 1991.

How common

• About 1 in 3,517 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,066 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (2.57 per 1,000 girls), OR (0.77 per 1,000 girls), OK (0.68 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Ariah is #636 in the US and #733 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ariah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aria6,130 US · 1,132 E&W
• Arie79 US · 7 E&W
• Auria54 US
• Uriah30 US
• Oriah18 US · 4 E&W
• Arria7 US · 4 E&W
• Auriah11 US
• Araiah9 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ariah

Girls

• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Naomi#47“my pleasantness”^*
• Selah#216“to hang”^*
• Lilith#277Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #586 in 2015, #277 in 2025
• Ezra#833Editor’s note Up from #1,199 in 2015 to #833 in 2025 in the US
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*

For a brother

• Solomon#422“peace”^*
• Hezekiah#485“Yahu is My Strength”^*
• Josiah#54Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #54 vs #226 in 2025
• Moses#515Editor’s note Down from #468 in 2015 to #515 in 2025 in the US
• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Josias#950Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1975, with 5 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ariah’s. Rank is US 2025.