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Aryel

Mostly girls · AIR-ee-el · Hebrew

Aryel is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning “lion of God”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Aryel mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Ariel

“lion of God”

Variant of Ariel, a biblical name for Jerusalem in Isaiah; Shakespeare gave it to the airy spirit in The Tempest.

Say it
AIR-ee-el

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

In recent years, Aryel has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US.

How popular is Aryel in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 53% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Aryel, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1988.

Half of all the girls named Aryel in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 898 girls in the US were given Aryel 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.

1988Busiest: 27 in 20072025
Aryel in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20245#15,288
20238#11,164
20226#13,586
20215#15,246
202014#7,554
201916#7,021
201815#7,405
201723#5,515
201620#6,184
201519#6,450
201417#6,985
201312#9,031
201217#7,140
201116#7,432
201018#6,901
200920#6,541
200812#9,472
200727#5,227
200621#6,123
200513#8,325
200414#7,823
200320#5,790
200219#5,892
200122#5,169
200020#5,486
199917#5,890
199813#7,099
199714#6,478
199614#6,387
199512#7,036
199416#5,707
199310#8,045
199222#4,521
199120#4,802
199017#5,281
19897#9,675
19888#8,386

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