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How popular is the name Ariel?
Births per year, rank history and how many Ariels are alive today.
Ariel (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 951st in 2025 with 37 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2020, when 52 babies were given the name, the 710th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1023 in 2022 before climbing back to the 951st place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Ariel you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Ariels born in England and Wales are between 5 and 15, and there are at least 640 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 Ariel - on average, only one in every 493 such rooms contains a Ariel.
How many babies are named Ariel each year?
Where does Ariel 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 Ariel most popular?
Ariel peaked in 2020, when 52 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Ariel?
At least 640 people named Ariel born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ariel?
Most living Ariels are between 5 and 15; the most common age is about 6.
Is Ariel becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.