Ariella

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ariella: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #132, and it stood at #294 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#132highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#2683
1997	#2411
1998	#2407
1999	#1557
2000	#1313
2001	#1520
2002	#1928
2003	#1269
2004	#1617
2005	#1295
2006	#1435
2007	#1196
2008	#1391
2009	#958
2010	#1013
2011	#959
2012	#635
2013	#500
2014	#481
2015	#357
2016	#338
2017	#264
2018	#254
2019	#229
2020	#186
2021	#197
2022	#168
2023	#146
2024	#132

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #132 among girls in England and Wales, #148 among girls in Scotland, #288 among girls in Northern Ireland, #320 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2683 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #132 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #294 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Ariella appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,933 births with the name.

Ariella across 3 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.

Ariella'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
England and Wales · Girls	#2683 (1996)	#132 (2024)	#132 (2024)	29 of 29	2,933 (1996–2024)	374 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#751 (2015)	#294 (2025)	#294 (2025)	9 of 11	78 (2015–2025)	14 (2022)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#306 (2016)	#264 (2023)	#288 (2024)	6 of 9	27 (2016–2024)	6 (2023)

Ariella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Ariella in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	28	4 of 10	7
2000s	177	10 of 10	18
2010s	1,188	10 of 10	119
2020sbusiest	1,540	5 of 10	308

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 308 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2016 and 2017, when recorded births rose by 45, from 145 to 190.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ariella 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #132 in England and Wales in 2024.

Ariella'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	#132	374	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#146	338	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#168	301	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#197	264	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#186	263	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#229	220	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#254	191	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#264	190	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#338	145	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#357	132	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#481	89	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#500	85	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#635	66	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#959	37	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1013	33	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#958	34	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1391	20	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1196	23	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1269	17	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1520	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#2683	5	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#288	5	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#264	6	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	12	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	14	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#325	13	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#751	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#148	29	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #132, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 374 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 28 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.

Ariel · #146, 31y
Ariela · #834, 20y
Arielle · #434, 29y
Arif · #500, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Tess · #133, 32y
Arianna · #130, 31y
Carys · #130, 29y
Kornelia · #130, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Betsy · #132, 29y
Conner · #131, 29y
Jordon · #133, 30y
Saffron · #133, 31y

Ariella was ranked #132 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. 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.

Ariella 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 Ariella without appearing here.

Ariella moved ahead of

Karin Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1557 and #1557 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #1313 and #3912.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2411 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1557 and #3900.
Jeanette Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2407 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1557 and #3900.
Therese Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2407 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #1557 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Ariella

Olive Compare
In 2020 they stood at #333 and #397 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2021 that had become #446 and #190.
Harper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #958 and #1171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1013 and #930.

Moved the opposite way to Ariella

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ariella

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ariella went from #2683 to #132 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #132 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ariella

Ariella at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ariella across 3 official records

Ariella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ariella appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ariella

Ariella and the names beside it

Ariella moved ahead of

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Ariella at a glance

Ariella across 3 official records

Ariella by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Ariella appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Ariella

Ariella and the names beside it

Ariella moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Ariella

Moved the opposite way to Ariella

Moved the same way as Ariella