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Airelle

Gender
Girl
Say it
eh-REL
Origin
French

Airelle is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “bilberry, lingonberry”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Airelle mean?

French: French word airelle

“bilberry, lingonberry”

French word for the bilberry or lingonberry; in the US it may also be a variant of Ariel.

Is Airelle a girl's or a boy's name?

Airelle is a girls' name.

How popular is Airelle in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1989, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Airelle in the US since 1880 were born between 1992 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

1989Busiest: 22 in 19892015
Airelle in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20156#14,477
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20080–
20075#17,630
20069#11,412
20057#13,003
20048#11,617
20039#10,420
200212#8,274
20018#11,013
200014#7,152
199916#6,185
199821#4,951
199721#4,815
199611#7,569
19958#9,548
19945#13,423
19935#13,435
199215#6,001
199115#5,943
199016#5,544
198922#4,242

Names like Airelle

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Airelle: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/airelle, updated 20 October 2026.