Rising since 1986, #26 for girls today.
Popularity of Aria since 1900
Babies named Aria per year in U.S. Social Security records.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1900s | 21 |
| 1910s | 48 |
| 1920s | 47 |
| 1930s | 5 |
| 1940s | 22 |
| 1950s | 38 |
| 1960s | 30 |
| 1970s | 181 |
| 1980s | 516 |
| 1990s | 1,270 |
| 2000s | 4,173 |
| 2010s | 52,264 |
| 2020s | 37,059 |
Meaning & origin
Aria captures how quickly a name can move in the streaming era. Recorded only sporadically after 1900, it began climbing in the mid-1980s, then compressed a generation's worth of growth into the 2010s as Pretty Little Liars and Game of Thrones put the sound in millions of living rooms at once. The crest came in 2018; as of 2025 the name holds 26th place among American girls, given to about 1 in 262.
What keeps it aloft after the shows faded is the name itself: two liquid syllables, an operatic literal meaning, and accidental credentials in Hebrew and Persian that let it read as a heritage choice in several communities simultaneously. That multiplicity, musical to one family, leonine to another, ancestral to a third, is rare, and it broadens the name's base well beyond a television cohort.
Aria's strongest states are Hawaii, Rhode Island, and New Mexico, an unusual coast-and-Southwest mix that echoes its cross-cultural pull. The trajectory suggests a gentle glide rather than a collapse: names this easy to say and spell tend to descend slowly.
As an American given name, Aria is usually understood through the Italian musical term for a solo operatic melody, from Italian aria, "air," ultimately from Latin and Greek words for air. But the name is a genuine convergence point: it coincides with the Hebrew name Arya or Aryeh, "lion," traditionally masculine, and with the Persian name Arya, drawn from the ancient ethnonym. Which association a family intends varies, and reference works simply list the strands side by side. Aria appears sporadically in American data from 1900, but its modern rise dates to the mid-1980s and went vertical in the 2010s, when television delivered a double push, Aria Montgomery of Pretty Little Liars (2010) and the similarly spelled Arya Stark of Game of Thrones (2011).
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Where Aria is most popular
Births per 100,000 girls by state. Press play or drag the slider to watch it move across the decades. The lightest shade means too few recorded births.
“Aria” around the world
Where Aria lands in the latest official birth statistics abroad, matched to the U.S. spelling.
France
#63
in 2024
Ireland
#72
in 2025
New Zealand
#9
in 2025
Quebec
54
babies in 2025
Australia (NSW)
#29
in 2025
Sources: INSEE (France) · CSO Ireland (Ireland) · NZ Dept of Internal Affairs (New Zealand) · Retraite Québec (Quebec) · NSW Registry of BDM (Australia (NSW)).
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: Ari, Ria
Sibling names for Aria
Names that share Aria's style, for a brother or sister.
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Names like Aria
Names whose popularity has moved with Aria's over the last 50 years.

