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Ariane

Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Ariane is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

What does Ariane mean?

Greek

A female given name from Ancient Greek or French.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Ariane is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ariane in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1998, with 23 girls.

Half of all the girls named Ariane in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2013. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

1996Busiest: 23 in 19982024
Ariane in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20246#3,758
20234#4,915
20221#7,487
20213#5,824
202010#2,566
20199#2,792
201813#2,198
201714#2,099
20167#3,389
201510#2,629
201410#2,618
201316#1,874
201217#1,828
201118#1,696
201015#1,912
200915#1,848
200816#1,745
200712#2,083
200617#1,545
200511#2,061
200417#1,399
200310#1,954
200210#1,874
200115#1,398
200019#1,137
199917#1,243
199823#1,015
199712#1,559
199622#988

How popular is Ariane in the US?

Rank in 2025
6,324th among girls
Babies in 2025
18 about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 50% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Ariane, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,310th. Its busiest year was 1978, with 164 girls. It first appears in the records in 1952.

Half of all the girls named Ariane in the US since 1880 were born between 1982 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 52 girls in the US were given Ariane or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,513, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.

1952Busiest: 164 in 19782025
Ariane in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
202421#5,796
202315#7,242
202220#5,981
202133#4,241
202023#5,310
201944#3,498
201841#3,676
201744#3,478
201684#2,269
2015129#1,655
2014148#1,502
2013161#1,413
201252#3,168
201132#4,465
201027#5,106
200945#3,560
200827#5,277
200731#4,674
200630#4,684
200540#3,642
200447#3,220
200345#3,228
200245#3,142
200146#3,042
200047#2,970
199936#3,440
199868#2,121
199758#2,306
199658#2,279
199562#2,150
199472#1,947
199388#1,690
199273#1,903
1991109#1,449
1990104#1,489
1989109#1,380
1988120#1,238
198786#1,497
198699#1,327
1985119#1,185
198497#1,284
1983106#1,207
198296#1,308
198185#1,433
1980122#1,117
1979111#1,184
1978164#887
197775#1,468
197629#2,663
197517#3,773
197420#3,313
197315#3,970
197221#3,062
197117#3,650
197018#3,435
196929#2,396
196817#3,168
196724#2,492
196628#2,248
196515#3,263
196418#2,999
196318#2,959
19629#4,532
19616#5,850
196012#3,687
195911#3,826
195815#3,084
195714#3,149
19560–
19556#5,207
19540–
19530–
19526#4,906

Names like Ariane

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

Jasmine, Abigail, Chloe, Zoe, Jessica, Alexandra, Amber, Athena, Nicole, Emily, Francesca, Erin

Other spellings of Ariane

Arianne

Names related to Ariane

Ariana, Arianna, Arina, Arianwen, Ariyana, Arianah, Ariannah, Arin, Arianny, Ariyan, Ariyanna

More Greek names

Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Sophie, Iris, Maisie

Every Greek name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Ariane: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ariane, updated 20 October 2026.