Gender-neutral · #355 in 2025
Ariel
Ariel: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #355
- Born 2025
- 851
- Peak year
- 1991
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 girls born
Recent trend
Ariel has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 18% of its 1991 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 73% of children named Ariel were recorded as girls and 27% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.