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Aria vs Ariebella

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 52 Ariebellas. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aria against Ariebella, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aria Ariebella

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aria has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Aria had 5,139 and Ariebella had 15.

Side by side

  Aria Ariebella
Total US births 96,37352
Most in one year 7,45415
Babies in 2025 6,1526
Estimated living today 96,00050
Median age today 79
Peak year 20182013
Best rank 19th girls7,748th girls
Rank in 2025 26th13,208th
First recorded 19002013
Girls / boys 95,674 / 69952 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ariebellas alive today are over 9; half the Arias are over 7. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aria and Ariebella.