girls:
6.6k births since 1961
#2023 (65th percentile)
boys:
19k births since 1958
#836 (82nd percentile)
overall:
25.6k births since 1958
#1586 (80th percentile)
The name Ari is the #1,586 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,559 recorded births since 1958. This represents the 79.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #836 (81.8% percentile) for all time with 18,960 births since 1958. For girls, it ranks #2,023 (64.6% percentile) for all time with 6,599 births since 1961.
Ari first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1958 (1958 for boys and 1961 for girls).
The name Ari has been given predominantly to boys, with 74.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 59.4% of babies named Ari were boys.
For boys, Ari reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 66.7% percentile (ranked #308) with 548 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 548 births per million (ranked 66.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ari is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #326 (64.3% percentile) with 526 births per million.
For girls, Ari reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 58.7% percentile (ranked #396) with 402 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 402 births per million (ranked 58.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ari ranks #417 for girls (56.0% percentile) with 377 births per million, which is 93.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ari".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ari. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Ari is pronounced as AH-ree, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ree, at 21.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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