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The first name 
Aria

Aria is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.

The name Aria is very popular!

The first name Aria is one of the top 100 most popular girls names in the US – currently at #25 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Aria, accounting for approximately 0.40 % of all newborn girls. In the entire USA, approximately 75,699 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Aria. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Aria

What does the name 
Aria mean?

The first name Aria is an Italian first name, which translated means something like ‘air’. In Aramaic, the name means ‘lion’. As a Persian first name, it should in turn mean as much as ‘noble’ or also ‘pure’.

Did you know... that an aria is a solo vocal piece in classical music? Most often, an aria is a part of a larger work such as an opera, cantata, or oratorio. However, there are also individual compositions, such as the concert aria.

Aria -
a name for the future?

This is a real surprise! Aria is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off in the 21st century. In the year 2018, it reached its best rank at #18 according to our SmartGenius statistics. This makes Aria much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. While the name Aria was observed for the first time ever in 1900, it now seems to have found its place in the zeitgeist of the 21st century. In 2018, the year of its highest popularity, the name was given a total of 7,437 times. Whether this beautiful girls' name can repeat or even exceed its previous best ranking in the coming years remains to be seen, but the prospects are promising given the positive trend.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Aria was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Aria - cementing the new path

In 2022, Aria ranked #23 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to newborn girls a total of 6,389 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its popularity in the early years of this millennium, there is a good chance that Aria will not disappear from the screen anytime soon.

Aria -
at home in every state from California to New York

The name Aria may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Aria is apparently especially popular in Nevada. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 549 women in Nevada is called Aria. In total, that’s 813 women who feel addressed when the name Aria is shouted loudly across Nevada and who ensure that their name makes it to #146 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Aria as the answer a total of 75,426 times. This places Aria at #403 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Aria as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.

Aria has 4 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With four letters, the name Aria is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, r, i and a

If you take all the letters in the name Aria – A, r, i and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Arai or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Aria

If your name is Aria and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Aria

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Aria, you can simply say:

Apple

Rocket

Igloo

Apple

This is how the name Aria is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Aria in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Aria

Aria

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Aria

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Aria is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
R
I
A

Have you ever waved the name Aria

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
R
I
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Aria sounds like this: