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Arielle vs Arieon

American parents have registered 30,921 Arielles since 1880, against 205 Arieons. Arielle is still ahead, with 618 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arielle against Arieon, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arielle Arieon

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

Arielle has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1962 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1998, when Arielle had 612 and Arieon had 20.

Side by side

  Arielle Arieon
Total US births 30,921205
Most in one year 1,63120
Babies in 2025 618under 5
Estimated living today 30,000200
Median age today 1916
Peak year 19912010
Best rank 183rd girls7,591st boys
Rank in 2025 485thunranked
First recorded 19621998
Girls / boys 30,870 / 5166 / 139

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 Arielles alive today are over 19; half the Arieons are over 16. That is 3 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: Arielle and Arieon.