Arieh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Biblical name
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arieh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country. In Israel it is the 36th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 614as אריה(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.2Kas אריה
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.1Kas אריה
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arieh itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 882K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 named אריה, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled אריה in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Biblical name
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arieh counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #165 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | אריה | 3 |
| IL Israel | #36 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 614 | 1.9K | אריה | 52 |
| LB Lebanon | #225 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | אריה | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,400as Aryeh | 1 in 139K | 2.4K | אריה | 181 |
| HU Hungary | #761 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | אריה | 4 |
| AT Austria | #875 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 6 | אריה | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 882K | 1 | Arieh | 31 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5 | 1 in 1M | 5 | Arieh | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arieh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Lion
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leo Baeckb. 1873DEnot in their usual nameGerman-born rabbi, scholar and theologian (1873–1956)
- Arieh Lubinb. 1897USpainter (1897-1980)
- Aryeh Tartakowerb. 1897ILJewish sociologist, philosopher, public figure
- Arieh Sharonb. 1900ILIsraeli architect
- Yehuda Arieh Klausnerb. 1910ILIsraeli librarian and bibliographer (1910–1970)
- Arieh Eliasb. 1921ILIsraeli actor
- Arieh Warshelb. 1940ILchemist, biochemist and biophysicist
- Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstamb. 1955USAmerican rabbi
- Arje Derib. 1959ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician (born 1959)
- Arieh Worthalterb. 1985FRBelgian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 187 | #38,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16 | #38,064 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 6 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #13,542 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arieh mean, and where does it come from?
- Biblical name Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Arieh?
- A machine transcription gives /ɛɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Arieh a male or female name?
- Arieh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Arieh?
- In the etymology graph, Aryeh, Arik and Arye are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Arieh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named אריה in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Arieh?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 5 people named Arieh, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
- How common is Arieh compared with other names?
- In Romania, Arieh is the 165th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ariehThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arieh” — the 165th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.