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Arriel

Girl · AIR-ee-el · Hebrew

Arriel is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “lion of God”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Arriel mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Ariel

“lion of God”

A poetic name for Jerusalem in the Book of Isaiah, and the airy spirit in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Say it
AIR-ee-el

Meaning borrowed from Ariel. More on Wiktionary.

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

Arriel is a girls' name.

How popular is Arriel in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1991, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 1982.

Half of all the girls named Arriel in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2003, the years shaded on the chart below.

1982Busiest: 24 in 19912017
Arriel in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20176#14,120
20160–
20158#11,830
20140–
20137#13,145
20127#13,477
20116#14,816
20100–
20096#15,236
200810#10,802
20070–
20060–
200510#10,123
200412#8,711
200310#9,666
20027#12,181
20019#10,095
200014#7,152
19998#10,338
199819#5,359
199713#6,839
199610#8,127
19959#8,761
199412#7,091
199319#4,992
199216#5,711
199124#4,202
199023#4,225
198917#5,043
198810#7,106
19870–
19867#8,518
19850–
19846#9,139
19836#9,013
198213#5,207

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Names like Arriel

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