Ariba
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-REE-ba
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,675 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Ariba is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “clever, intelligent”. In 2025 it ranked 2,675th for girls in the UK (10 babies) and 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Ariba mean?
Arabic
“clever, intelligent”
Is Ariba a girl's or a boy's name?
Ariba is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the UK and 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ariba in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,675among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 14% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were named Ariba, making it the 2,675th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 22 girls.
Half of all the girls named Ariba in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 41 girls in the UK were given Ariba or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #835, up from #2,675 for this spelling alone.
- Areeba 31
- Ariba 10
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,603rd in England and Wales.
Ariba in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #2,675 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 6 | #3,766 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 9 | #2,792 |
| 2018 | 5 | #4,204 |
| 2017 | 11 | #2,485 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 7 | #3,471 |
| 2011 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,540 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 10 | #2,454 |
| 2007 | 22 | #1,327 |
| 2006 | 9 | #2,451 |
| 2005 | 12 | #1,912 |
| 2004 | 7 | #2,669 |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 9 | #2,040 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 3 | #4,074 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
How popular is Ariba in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 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, 10 girls in the US were named Ariba, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
Half of all the girls named Ariba in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Ariba in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,887 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,527 |
Names like Ariba
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Aaliyah Abeeha Amira Hafsa Hiba Zainab Ayah Rahma Khadija Halima Safiya
Other spellings of Ariba
Names related to Ariba
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
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, “Ariba: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ariba, updated 20 October 2026.