girls:
29.6k births since 1962
#822 (86th percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1986
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
29.7k births since 1962
#1481 (81st percentile)
The name Arielle is the #1,481 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,682 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 80.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #822 (85.6% percentile) for all time with 29,631 births since 1962. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1986.
Arielle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (1962 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Arielle is available in 57 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023 (57 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Arielle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Arielle reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 78.9% percentile (ranked #183) with 764 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 802 births per million (ranked 78.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Arielle ranks #386 for girls (59.3% percentile) with 417 births per million, which is 52.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Arielle reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #737) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 10 births per million (ranked 2.6% 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 "Arielle".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Arielle", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 39 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Ariel" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Ariel..
Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Arielle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.8% confident that Arielle is pronounced as ah-ree-EHL, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-ree-EHL, at 25.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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