Arian

What Arian means

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

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 8 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Arian?

US: Falling: down from #714 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #833 in 2015, #811 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2013, when 494 boys got the name (#538 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 7,177 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 6,798 baby boys 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 TX (0.32 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.31 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.28 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Arian is #965 in the US and #811 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 95.6% of US babies named Arian were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Orion1,012 US · 113 E&W
• Arion70 US · 11 E&W
• Erian18 US
• Orian15 US
• Arien14 US
• Erion9 US · 4 E&W
• Orien9 US
• Eirian7 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.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Areian

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Arian

Boys

• Jayce#167Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #167 vs #822 in 2025
• Jace#114Diminutive of Jason, meaning “I heal”^*
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Easton#110“east + settlement”^*
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Karter#270Variant of Carter, meaning “son of Arthur”^*

For a sister

• Hadley#121“heath + woodland clearing”^*
• Harper#16From a surname for “a player of the harp”^*
• Penelope#22possibly “duck”^*
• Mila#43Editor’s note Up from #53 in 2015 to #43 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 340 US girls in the 2025 records
• Aria#26“a musical aria”^*
• Cora#113“maiden”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Arian’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.