Ariane
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: From Greek Ariadnē, associated with 'most holy' or with Ariadne in mythology
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɐɾjɐnɨ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ariane is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 9.7K
- USUnited States1 in 48Kas Aryan
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 Ariane 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
73,714 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From Greek Ariadnē, associated with 'most holy' or with Ariadne in mythology.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ariane is read(measured from records)
Ariane is one spelling over 5 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.
- Portuguese49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ariane in Portuguese.
- French17%
From Greek Ariadnē, associated with 'most holy' or with Ariadne in mythology.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du grec Ariadnê, « très pure »; nom de la mythologie grecque. Fête: 18 septembre.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Étymologie incertaine; liée à la légende du fil d’Ariane et à Ariadne. Fête/nom non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
From Greek Ariadnē; means “relative to Ariadne.”
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Grec ancien, «très pure»; lié a Ariadnê.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
- English15%
A female given name from Ancient Greek or French.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ariane in German.
- Spanish5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ariane in Spanish.
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)
Ariane 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #436 | 73,714 | 1 in 2.9K | 74K | Ariane | 165 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Ariane | 60 |
| FR France | — | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 12K | — | 3 |
| US United States | — | 6,988as Aryan | 1 in 48K | 6.4K | Ariane | 173 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | 21 | Ariane | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 64 | Ariane | 36 |
| AL Albania | — | 840as Arian | 1 in 3.7K | 840 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 781as Arian | 1 in 7K | 2.9K | — | 8 |
73,714 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ariane Mnouchkineb. 1939FRFrench theater and film director, theater director and author
- Ariane Ascarideb. 1954FRFrench actress
- Ariane Koizumib. 1963USAmerican actress
- Ariane Hingstb. 1979DEGerman association football player
- Dominique Swainb. 1980USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Louise Bourgoinb. 1981FRnot in their usual nameFrench actress
- Ariane Labedb. 1984GRFrench actress
- Ariane Friedrichb. 1984DEGerman high jumper
- Ariane Rinehartb. 1994USAmerican actress and singer
- Princess Ariane of the Netherlandsb. 2007NLyoungest daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 72 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 74K | #589 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 74K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73K | #411 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 12K | #159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,380 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.9K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 442 | #2,733 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 312 | #411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 45 | #4,380 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 21 | #447 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- What does the name Ariane mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Ariadnē, associated with 'most holy' or with Ariadne in mythology. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Ariane?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐɾjɐnɨ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Ariane have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Ariane, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ariane.
- Where is Ariane most common?
- Ariane is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Ariane a male or female name?
- Ariane 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 are other forms of the name Ariane?
- In the etymology graph, Ariana, Arianna and Ariadna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Ariane?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 73,714 people named Ariane in 2022, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Ariane compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Ariane is the 436th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arianeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ariane” — the 436th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.