Ariana

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A female given name from Ancient Greek

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ariana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 700(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 1.9K
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 2.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ariana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

95,572 people, 2020

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
424 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 700 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ArianaLatin(measured from records)
אריאנהHebrew(measured from records)
ԱրիանաArmenian(measured from records)
ΑριαναGreek(measured from records)
არიანაGeorgian(measured from records)
아리아나Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Arianna in US United States, IT Italy.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Ariana (a historical region of Central Asia; modern Afghanistan and surrounding regions)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Ariana is read(measured from records)

Ariana is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish57%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Ariana in Spanish.

  • English22%

    A female given name from Ancient Greek.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese9.0%

    Ariana (a historical region of Central Asia; modern Afghanistan and surrounding regions)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ariana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ariana is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—95,5721 in 3.5K95KArianna424
IT Italy#194≈52,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K1.5KArianna203
EC Ecuador#30524,1501 in 70024KAriana54
BR Brazil#98323,2561 in 9.1K23KAriana142
AR Argentina#418≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2.8K535Ariana105
CR Costa Rica#1322,6401 in 1.9K2.6KAriana63
MD Moldova#9202,0001 in 1.7K2KAriana10
XK Kosovo—≈800 est.≈1 in 2.4K1.5K—3

95,572 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling ariana. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; e-services.md — living population register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ariana is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Peru, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ari'Ana, Aryanah, A'Riana, Ariāna, Ariänä

  • Russian given name69 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian

    Also written Ариана, Arijana, Аріана, Арьяна, Аряна

  • French given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Aryanah, Ãrīånä, Àriànà, Àrïâñà, Arïànâ

  • Indonesian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Peru, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ariana', 'Ariana, Årîãnå

  • Lao given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Peru, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written อาเรียนา, Áriana, Arǐana, Aríáná, Arïänä

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Malaysia, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Bangla

    Also written Arîânâ

  • Finnish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Peru, Spain, Canada

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Arîänä, Ärîaña, Ariänä

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ariana is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Rattaché à la mythologie du Minotaure; évoque un « prodige » ou un « miracle ». Fête/nom non indiqué.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In Italian, feminine singular of ariano

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19701980199020002010Ariana Harwicz, b. 1977Ariana Richards, b. 1979Ariana Jollee, b. 1982Ariana Savalas, b. 1987Ariana Kukors, b. 1989Ariana DeBose, b. 1991Tiffany Trump, b. 1993Ariana Marie, b. 1993Ariana Washington, b. 1996Ariana Greenblatt, b. 2007

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 112 sources across 61 countries.

Official registers attesting Ariana
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202095K#567
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202424K#83
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202223K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—23K#964
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—23K#1,267
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2.6K#286
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20252.2K—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—2K#267
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.5K#512
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020581—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024535#269
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2024343—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Ariana come from?
Ariana (a historical region of Central Asia; modern Afghanistan and surrounding regions) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Ariana a male or female name?
Ariana is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Ariana mean?
In English, A female given name from Ancient Greek.
What are other forms of the name Ariana?
In the etymology graph, Ariane, Arianna and Ariadna are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Ariana have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 96 thousand people named Ariana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arianna.
Where is Ariana most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ariana is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 700 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ariana?
In the United States, the national register counted 95,572 people named Ariana in 2020, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Ariana compared with other names?
In Costa Rica, Ariana is the 132nd most common given name of 15,284 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ariana” — the 132nd most common given name in Costa Rica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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