Is Ariel a male or female name?
Ariel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 78% and male usage in Poland at 97%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 72%
- Sample size
- 117,253
- Confidence
- high
Ariel by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 78% | 99,159 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 85% | 5,146 | statcan |
| Poland PL | male | 97% | 5,105 | pesel |
| Spain ES | male | 89% | 2,964 | ine |
| France FR | male | 82% | 2,675 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | female | 59% | 1,019 | ons |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 615 | ssb |
| Switzerland CH | male | 74% | 486 | bfs |
| Austria AT | male | 77% | 57 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 78% | 27 | cso |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · IE · IL · IN · NO · PL · SE · US
Ariel over time
In the United States, 77.6% of the babies named Ariel in the 1910s were girls, against 70% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 40.5% of the babies named Ariel in the 1950s were girls, against 17.6% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 78% | 201 | — | |
| 1920s | 62% | 209 | — | |
| 1930s | 61% | 136 | — | |
| 1940s | 66% | 131 | — | |
| 1950s | 34% | 188 | 40% | 210 |
| 1960s | 24% | 584 | 42% | 320 |
| 1970s | 33% | 2,195 | 15% | 100 |
| 1980s | 68% | 9,326 | 0% | 110 |
| 1990s | 86% | 32,801 | 6% | 245 |
| 2000s | 78% | 20,748 | 7% | 420 |
| 2010s | 82% | 23,655 | 12% | 575 |
| 2020s | 70% | 8,918 | 18% | 595 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Ariel with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Ariel
Is Ariel a male or female name?
Ariel is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 78% and male usage in Poland at 97%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Ariel change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Ariel identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.