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Aria vs Arietta

American parents have registered 96,373 Arias since 1880, against 633 Ariettas. Aria is still ahead, with 6,152 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aria Arietta

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

Of the 104 years in which either name was published, Aria for 75 years and Arietta for 29 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Aria Arietta
Total US births 96,373633
Most in one year 7,45436
Babies in 2025 6,15213
Estimated living today 96,000190
Median age today 78
Peak year 20181921
Best rank 19th girls1,298th girls
Rank in 2025 26th7,885th
First recorded 19001904
Girls / boys 95,674 / 699633 / 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Aria Arietta
England and Wales 13,08159

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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