The French name Arielle means ‘lioness of God’ or ‘heroine of God’, derived from the Hebrew name “Ari’el”. It is associated with bravery, leadership, and the ability to overcome obstacles.
Arielle is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Arielle isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Arielle ranks 321. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 6 were named Arielle. In the entire USA, approximately 26,786 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Arielle. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The French name Arielle means ‘lioness of God’ or ‘heroine of God’, derived from the Hebrew name “Ari’el”. It is associated with bravery, leadership, and the ability to overcome obstacles.
Arielle is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Arielle - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 175 in 1991. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Arielle really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arielle was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
818 babies were named Arielle in 2022 - that's 1 in 182,327 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Arielle ranked 347 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 seven letters, the name Arielle has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
If your name is Arielle 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Arielle, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arielle
Arielle
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
I
E
L
L
E
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
E
L
L
E
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. Arielle sounds like this:
