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How popular is the name Ariadne?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ariadnes are alive today.
Ariadne (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 845th in 2025 with 42 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2018, when 47 babies were given the name, the 806th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1397 in 2020 before climbing back to the 845th place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years.
The Ariadne you are most likely to meet is around 9 years old. Half of all Ariadnes born in England and Wales are between 5 and 14, and there are at least 580 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Ariadne - on average, only one in every 544 such rooms contains a Ariadne.
How many babies are named Ariadne each year?
Where does Ariadne rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ariadne most popular?
Ariadne peaked in 2018, when 47 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Ariadne?
At least 580 people named Ariadne born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ariadne?
Most living Ariadnes are between 5 and 14; the most common age is about 9.
Is Ariadne becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.