Ari
About 28,254 American babies have been named Ari since 1958, most of them around 2022. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 393rd. About 28,000 Aris are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ari boys named Ari
Girls and boys called Ari
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 7,662 girls and 20,592 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 476 to 808.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 66 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,254
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 10
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 328th
- Rank in 2025
- 393rd
- First recorded
- 1958
- Girls / boys
- 7,662 / 20,592
How old the living Aris are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,254 babies given the name since 1958, about 28,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 20,000 of them are children and 40 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Of the first sense, derives directly from Hebrew: אֲרִי (“lion”); compare Yiddish: לייב (“Leib”), English: Leo, Leon, French: Léo, Léon, Czech: Lev, Polish: Lew, Russian: Лев, and Ukrainian: Лев.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Aris
- Ari Freyr Skúlason (born 1987)Icelandic footballer
- Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148)Icelandic writer
- Ari Behn (1972–2019)Norwegian author
- Ari Vatanen (born 1952)politician and rally driver, Member of the European Parliament, winner of the 1981 World Rally Championship for Drivers
- Ari Folman (born 1962)Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer
- Ari Ólafsson (born 1998)Icelandic singer
- Ari Graynor (born 1983)American actress
- Ari (born 1985)Brazilian-born Russian footballer
People named Ari with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ari is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ari is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (1.9×), Nevada (1.8×), Florida (1.8×), New York (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Ari peaked:
Ari elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ari | 1,657 | 237th |
| France boys | Ari | 760 | 915th |
| Switzerland boys | Ari | 577 | 111th |
| Norway boys | Ari | 247 | 284th |
| Belgium boys | Ari | 213 | 378th |
| New Zealand boys | Ari | 213 | 74th |
| England and Wales girls | Ari | 182 | 934th |
| Scotland boys | Ari | 113 | 228th |
| Ireland boys | Ari | 50 | 394th |
| Scotland girls | Ari | 19 | 539th |
| Switzerland girls | Ari | 16 | 1,209th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Ari | 12 | 285th |
| Poland boys | Ari | 12 birth registrations | 497th |
| France girls | Ari | 10 | 3,836th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ari: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ari | 471 | 0.038% | 103rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Ari | 15 | 0.001% | 941st |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ari | 97 | 0.022% | 115th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Ari | 1 | 0.000% | 1,042nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ari | 8 | 0.012% | 97th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Ari | 1 | 0.027% | 14th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Ari is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.06% of children were given it – 200 of them.
Ari: rank by region
In 2025, Ari was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ari | 806 | 6 |
| Wallonia | Ari | 317 | 8 |
In 2024, Ari was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pomorskie | Ari | 227 | 2 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ari appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (214th) and Province of Antwerp (242nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ari by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 79 | 198th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Ari among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ari | 25,582 | 28,410 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ari lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 288 men called Ari were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Girona | Ari | 11 | 0.026 | 1,989 |
| Barcelona | Ari | 70 | 0.024 | 2,021 |
| Coruña, A | Ari | 10 | 0.018 | 2,019 |
| Zaragoza | Ari | 9 | 0.018 | 2,475 |
| Bizkaia | Ari | 10 | 0.018 | 2,145 |
| Cantabria | Ari | 5 | 0.017 | 2,044 |
Listed in 16 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 36 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ari against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.