Ariana

What Ariana means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #46 in 2015, #128 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ariana?

US: Falling: down from #46 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #123 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 5,504 girls got the name (#37 that year). First in the US records in 1957.

How common

• About 1 in 724 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,025 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,118 baby girls in Scotland 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 (3.64 per 1,000 girls), NV (2.93 per 1,000 girls), MD (2.75 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ariana is #128 in the US and #203 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 Ariana were girls.

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

• Arianna1,323 US · 101 E&W
• Oriana113 US · 28 E&W
• Arianny100 US
• Orianna53 US · 4 E&W
• Ariani46 US
• Ariany37 US
• Erianna23 US
• Eriana21 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 Ariana

Girls

• Greta#908Editor’s note Down from #575 in 2015 to #908 in 2025 in the US
• Lexi#628Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #308 in 2015, #628 in 2025
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Sophia#5“wisdom”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Chloe#23“young green shoot”^*

For a brother

• Zander#396Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*
• Pierce#505Form of Peter, meaning “stone, rock”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*

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