Arieh
Arieh is both a given name and a surname. Arieh means lion in Hebrew. Other transliterations include Arie, Aryeh, Arye, and Ari.
- Biblical
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Arieh
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Arieh is both a given name and a surname. Arieh means lion in Hebrew. Other transliterations include Arie, Aryeh, Arye, and Ari.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Biblical
- Hebrew
The Story of Arieh
The earliest SSA record of Arieh as a baby boy name dates back to 1992, when 5 babies received it. 2023 was its biggest year on record, with 11 newborns named Arieh — #7,285 in the national rankings. About 34% of every Arieh on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Arieh last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 99 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Arieh
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Arieh. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Arieh
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About the name Arieh
Arieh is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1992 and has accumulated 99 births in the dataset. Arieh's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #7,285. Use the chart and map above to compare Arieh's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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