Arial
Girl · AIR-ee-ul · Hebrew
Arial is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “lion of God”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Arial mean?
Hebrew: spelling variant of Ariel
“lion of God”
A spelling of Ariel, a Hebrew name used in the Bible and for the spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
- Say it
- AIR-ee-ul
Is Arial a girl's or a boy's name?
Arial is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Arial in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Arial, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 1991, with 69 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.
Half of all the girls named Arial in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 898 girls in the US were given Arial or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #366, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Arial in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,398 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,724 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,852 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,106 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,096 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,880 |
| 2007 | 31 | #4,674 |
| 2006 | 53 | #3,135 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,872 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,562 |
| 2003 | 41 | #3,468 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,494 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,005 |
| 2000 | 43 | #3,165 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,096 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,753 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,710 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,147 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,110 |
| 1993 | 33 | #3,346 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,086 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,990 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,595 |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,830 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,272 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,069 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,754 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,346 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,290 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,883 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
Names like Arial
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Arial
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