girls:
30 births since 2015
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
55 births since 2014
#4531 (1st percentile)
overall:
85 births since 2014
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Aari is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 2014. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,531 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 55 births since 2014. For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 2015.
Aari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Aari is available in 8 out of the 10 years between 2014 and 2023 (7 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aari has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (64.7% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Aari were boys.
For boys, Aari reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #917) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aari ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 85.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aari reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #956) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aari".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Ari. View all variations of Ari.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aari", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 26 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Ari" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Ari..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Aari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Aari is pronounced as AH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-ree, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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