Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
Origin: DutchAria can be a male, female, or even a unisex name depending on the country of origin. The Persian Arya is a male name that means "noble". Italian Aria refers both "air" and the melody, aria. In the Albanian language, Aria or Ari means "treasure" or "gold" or "of high value".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Aria yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Aria is essentially flat: 0% change over the past ten years, one of the only names across all four batches to land exactly on zero. Its rank peaked at #19 in 2018, the same year the raw count hit its own high of 7,435 — a clean, simultaneous peak with no lag between the two measures.
The name only enters SSA data in 1900, twenty years after the dataset's start, and its enrichment data lists a single bearer, actor Aria Giovanni, whose career doesn't predate the name's own 2010s rise.
That combination — flat growth, a recent single peak, one contemporary namesake — makes Aria one of the more static entries in this batch, neither climbing nor falling in any meaningful way right now.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 5 | #1,949 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,487 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,951 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,231 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,158 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,221 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,906 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,707 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,944 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,898 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,844 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,153 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,683 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,013 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,127 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,891 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,220 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,081 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,590 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,449 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,365 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,604 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,453 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,945 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,708 |
| 1956 | 7 | #4,857 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,126 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,138 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,290 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,649 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,841 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,077 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,066 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,475 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,881 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,573 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,285 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,488 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,475 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,609 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,687 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,841 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,784 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,934 |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,655 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,929 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,055 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,050 |
| 1984 | 55 | #1,907 |
| 1985 | 46 | #2,224 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,423 |
| 1987 | 55 | #2,027 |
| 1988 | 77 | #1,673 |
| 1989 | 77 | #1,752 |
| 1990 | 91 | #1,634 |
| 1991 | 91 | #1,644 |
| 1992 | 102 | #1,530 |
| 1993 | 75 | #1,882 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,496 |
| 1995 | 151 | #1,153 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,226 |
| 1997 | 133 | #1,304 |
| 1998 | 178 | #1,089 |
| 1999 | 202 | #1,013 |
| 2000 | 221 | #957 |
| 2001 | 321 | #746 |
| 2002 | 331 | #736 |
| 2003 | 402 | #662 |
| 2004 | 403 | #684 |
| 2005 | 384 | #711 |
| 2006 | 444 | #653 |
| 2007 | 530 | #566 |
| 2008 | 541 | #571 |
| 2009 | 596 | #506 |
| 2010 | 904 | #353 |
| 2011 | 1,983 | #157 |
| 2012 | 3,233 | #92 |
| 2013 | 5,118 | #41 |
| 2014 | 5,931 | #31 |
| 2015 | 6,419 | #29 |
| 2016 | 6,948 | #23 |
| 2017 | 7,167 | #20 |
| 2018 | 7,435 | #19 |
| 2019 | 7,116 | #20 |
| 2020 | 6,139 | #27 |
| 2021 | 6,397 | #22 |
| 2022 | 6,402 | #23 |
| 2023 | 6,018 | #25 |
| 2024 | 5,935 | #26 |
