Arielle

What Arielle means

Variant of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”

variant of Ariel || From Biblical Hebrew אֲרִיאֵל (ari'él, a compound of אֲרִי (arí, “lion”) +‎ אֵל (él, “God”), literally “lion of God”). (moon of Uranus): All of Uranus’s moons are named after characters created by William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope.

Source: Wiktionary, “Arielle” (revision 87318708) and “Ariel” (revision 93817726), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Arielle?

US: Falling: down from #352 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #984 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1991, when 1,631 girls got the name (#183 that year). First in the US records in 1962.

How common

• About 1 in 2,601 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,945 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 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 RI (2.04 per 1,000 girls), MS (1.01 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.73 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Arielle is #485 in the US and #463 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 Arielle were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ariel851 US · 37 E&W
• Aurielle38 US
• Erielle27 US
• Arella13 US · 8 E&W
• Urielle13 US
• Ariell11 US
• Arelly9 US
• Orielle5 US · 3 E&W

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

Nicknames

• Elle

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Arielle

Girls

• Davina#749Feminine form of David, meaning “beloved”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Lena#279“the Large River”^*
• Ari#614“lion”^*
• Mara#587“bitterness”^*

For a brother

• Ira#819“watchful”^*
• Reuben#883Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #29 vs #883 in 2025
• Amos#730“to carry; a burden”^*
• Raphael#394“God cures/has healed”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Abel#231Editor’s note Down from #124 in 2015 to #231 in 2025 in the US

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 Arielle’s. Rank is US 2025.