girls:
5 births since 2015
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.2k births since 1954
#2212 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1954
#4817 (38th percentile)
The name Aryeh is the #4,817 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,197 recorded births since 1954. This represents the 37.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,212 (51.7% percentile) for all time with 3,192 births since 1954. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2015.
Aryeh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1954 (1954 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Aryeh is available in 63 out of the 70 years between 1954 and 2023 (63 years for boys and 1 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 Aryeh has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aryeh reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 14.3% percentile (ranked #797) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 74 births per million (ranked 14.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aryeh ranks #817 for boys (10.3% percentile) with 54 births per million, which is 73.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aryeh reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #960) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aryeh".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Aryeh", 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 5 different pronunciations for the name Aryeh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.4% confident that Aryeh is pronounced as AHR-yeh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-ree, at 16.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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