first name
ARIYAH
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,337 people named Ariyah, 54.1% reported their origin as Black, 16.5% as Hispanic or Latino and 13.9% as White. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Ariyah peaked in 2023, when 927 babies got the name.
At least 11,120 babies have been given the name since 1998. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Ariyah by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #737. The largest share of babies named Ariyah, 86.4%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Ariyah is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Ariyah has been most common in Nevada (2.7×), Florida (2.4×), and Georgia (2.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.34×).
10,087 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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