Aranza
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-RAHN-sa
- US rank, 2025
- #1,484 for girls
Aranza is a girls' name, meaning “thorn bush”. In 2025 it ranked 1,484th for girls in the US (144 babies).
What does Aranza mean?
Basque, short form of Aranzazu
“thorn bush”
Short for Aranzazu, a Basque title of the Virgin Mary, who in legend appeared to a shepherd in a hawthorn bush.
Is Aranza a girl's or a boy's name?
Aranza is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 144 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aranza in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,484among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 144about 1 in 11,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 28% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 144 girls in the US were named Aranza, making it the 1,484th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,362nd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 476 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Aranza than any year since 2013.
Half of all the girls named Aranza in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aranza in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,484 |
| 2024 | 150 | #1,457 |
| 2023 | 154 | #1,446 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,256 |
| 2021 | 151 | #1,426 |
| 2020 | 160 | #1,362 |
| 2019 | 213 | #1,133 |
| 2018 | 245 | #1,048 |
| 2017 | 267 | #978 |
| 2016 | 307 | #905 |
| 2015 | 290 | #933 |
| 2014 | 476 | #611 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,241 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,214 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,806 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,607 |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,012 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,528 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,247 |
| 2006 | 64 | #2,757 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,432 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,815 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,801 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,726 |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,042 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,586 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,966 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,478 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,074 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,423 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
Names like Aranza
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira Amoura Alaya Aaliyah Safa Zamira Zahara Hadassah Zayla Zaniyah Amyra Ayra
Names related to Aranza
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, “Aranza: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aranza, updated 20 October 2026.