Ari

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ari: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ari: Recorded since 1956, it reached #74 in 2021, and it stood at #337 in 2025.

7registrars recorded it
97times a registrar ranked it
70years from first to last
#74highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#4736
2016	#3609
2017	#3583
2018	#3985
2019	#2170
2020	#2042
2021	#2073
2022	#1282
2023	#1056
2024	#934

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 37 of the 70 years from 1956 to 2025.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #934 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 7 national registrars across 7 regions, 1956–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1956
First recorded at #356 among boys in Norway in 1956 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded2020–2023
Highest recorded position: #74 among boys in New Zealand, in 2021 (recorded 2020–2023).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #337 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ari appears in 7 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 37 years beginning in 1956, and has registered 247 births with the name.

Ari across 7 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ari's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#356 (1956)	#281 (2021)	#337 (2025)	37 of 70	247 (1956–2025)	13 (2002)
England and Wales · Boys	#2020 (1996)	#237 (2023)	#286 (2024)	27 of 29	1,512 (1996–2024)	204 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#699 (2015)	#394 (2024)	#676 (2025)	10 of 11	50 (2015–2025)	9 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#4736 (2015)	#934 (2024)	#934 (2024)	10 of 10	154 (2015–2024)	38 (2024)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#94 (2020)	#86 (2023)	#86 (2023)	4 of 4	391 (2020–2023)	105 (2021)
New Zealand · Boys	#97 (2020)	#74 (2021)	#87 (2023)	4 of 4	213 (2020–2023)	62 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#392 (2020)	#285 (2022)	#285 (2022)	3 of 3	12 (2020–2022)	6 (2022)

Ari by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ari in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	6	1 of 10	6
1960s	17	4 of 10	4
1970s	37	6 of 10	6
1980s	23	4 of 10	6
1990s	18	3 of 10	6
2000s	49	7 of 10	7
2010s	32	6 of 10	5
2020sbusiest	65	6 of 10	11

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ari appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1956 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #74 in New Zealand in 2021.

Ari's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#934	38	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#286	157	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#237	204	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#260	181	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2073	13	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#297	160	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#377	113	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2170	12	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#410	104	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#465	87	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#488	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#542	72	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#656	52	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#781	40	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#821	37	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#866	35	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1158	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#897	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1206	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1361	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1596	10	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1092	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1651	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2020	5	High	Verified
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#86	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	95	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	105	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	male	#94	99	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	male	#87	49	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	male	#88	53	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	male	#74	62	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	male	#97	49	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#285	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#433	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#392	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#337	10	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#333	10	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#353	9	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#309	11	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#281	13	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#284	12	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#451	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#466	5	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#448	6	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#520	4	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#427	7	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#484	5	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#508	5	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#498	5	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#450	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#517	4	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#347	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#422	7	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#286	13	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#387	8	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#503	5	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#513	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#443	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#609	4	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#561	5	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#532	6	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#415	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#595	4	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#576	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#508	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#503	6	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#420	8	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#553	4	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#524	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#515	4	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#465	5	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#356	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#394	9	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#414	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#564	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#749	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#290	13	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 7 registrars between 1956 and 2025, ranked in 44 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #74, first reached in 2021.

It held a top-100 place in 4 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 204 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 13 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 68 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Arhan · #2160, 14y
Arhum · #2512, 12y
Aria · #11, 30y
Aria-Mae · #885, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 7 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Tristan · #74, 49y
Gabriella · #57, 46y
Eliza · #38, 48y
Aurora · #14, 46y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Adrienne · #74, 63y
Pia · #74, 74y
Ann-Kristin · #73, 48y
Dale · #75, 62y

Ari was ranked #74 in New Zealand · Boys in 2021. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ari and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ari without appearing here.

Ari moved ahead of

Donna Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #5591.
Francis Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3178 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #4686.
Maren Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3985 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2170 and #4686.

Moved ahead of Ari

Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1596 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1534 and #1135.
Sondre Compare
In 1970 they stood at #420 and #510 in Norway · Boys; by 1971 that had become #503 and #220.
Muhammad Compare
In 1964 they stood at #465 and #491 in Norway · Boys; by 1965 that had become #515 and #254.
Filip Compare
In 1980 they stood at #415 and #450 in Norway · Boys; by 1981 that had become #532 and #280.

Moved the opposite way to Ari

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ari went from #2020 to #286 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ari went from #2020 to #286 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ari went from #2020 to #286 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ari went from #2020 to #286 while Alexander went from #14 to #36.

Moved the same way as Ari

Stein Compare
Between 1956 and 2014 in Norway · Boys, Ari went from #356 to #520 and Stein from #21 to #452.
Glenn Compare
Between 1956 and 2009 in Norway · Boys, Ari went from #356 to #508 and Glenn from #248 to #431.
Stephen Compare
Between 1956 and 1996 in Norway · Boys, Ari went from #356 to #503 and Stephen from #210 to #544.
Liam Compare
Between 1987 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ari went from #609 to #337 and Liam from #627 to #7.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 7 regions, from 1956 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #74 in New Zealand in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ari

Ari at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ari across 7 official records

Ari by decade in Norway · Boys

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Ari at a glance

Ari across 7 official records

Ari by decade in Norway · Boys

Ari appears in

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Ari and the names beside it

Ari moved ahead of

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