girls:
10.7k births since 1991
#1526 (73rd percentile)
boys:
66 births since 2009
#4520 (1st percentile)
overall:
10.8k births since 1991
#2551 (67th percentile)
The name Ariah is the #2,551 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,751 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 67.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,526 (73.3% percentile) for all time with 10,685 births since 1991. For boys, it ranks #4,520 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 2009.
Ariah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for girls and 2009 for boys).
The name Ariah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ariah reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 69.5% percentile (ranked #293) with 540 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 540 births per million (ranked 69.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ariah ranks #455 for girls (52.0% percentile) with 337 births per million, which is 62.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ariah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #913) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ariah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Ariah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 54 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Aria" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Aria..
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Ariah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.6% confident that Ariah is pronounced as AH-ree-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ah-RAI-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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