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Ariela

From Hebrew, the name reads as "lioness of God". Rare in Poland: most people here have never met an Ariela, yet the count is creeping up, with more girls given it last year than in years past.

Ariela Pronunciation

Ariela is pronounced ahr-YE-lah (/arˈjɛla/).

Alive in 2025
139
Newborns 2025
6
National rank
#2782

What Ariela means

Where Ariela comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Ariela comes from Hebrew, built from ari, lion, and el, God. The masculine form Ariel appears in the Hebrew Bible, where it names both a man in the book of Ezra and, in Isaiah, the city of Jerusalem itself. Ariela is the feminine shape of that word, and its sense passed into English as "lioness of God," into Polish as "lew boży."

Among Jewish families the name stayed close to its scriptural root. It spread more widely in Hebrew-speaking households after modern Hebrew was revived as a spoken language. A lioness is not a decorative animal. The word attaches strength to a girl and does not soften it.

In a Polish class register Ariela sits apart from an Ola or a Kasia. It has no home-grown diminutive to shrink it, so a teacher reads it whole. What a child hears in it is the older sense, a lioness with God named beside her.

How many people are named Ariela

1 in 162186 women in Poland is named Ariela. 139 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2782 among female names.

People with the name Ariela 2019 → 2025
139 +66 since 2019
2020 78 +5
2021 83 +5
2022 96 +13
2023 111 +15
2024 118 +7
2025 139 +21

Ariela's popularity over time

6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #850 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2016.

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6 newborns with the name Ariela in 2025
national rank #850 that year

Where parents choose Ariela

Ariela is most popular in Holy Cross, 457% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+182%) and Masovian (+161%).

Chosen most
  • Holy Cross
    +457%
    1 in 27,717 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +182%
    1 in 54,690 babies
  • Masovian
    +161%
    1 in 59,044 babies

Ariela as a middle name

Ariela is a first name for 139 women in Poland and a middle name for another 29, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1300th, between Adria (29) and Chen (29).

As a first name
139
As a middle name
29
first name 83% middle name 17%
Middle-name ranking women

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