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Boy's nameOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: rising fast

AriIn Hebrew: ארי · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: אֲרִיRomanization: arí

Ari (Hebrew: ארי) is a boy's name of Hebrew origin. 11,254 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 1,264 boys and ranked #9. Its peak year was 2022, with 1,305 babies.

People in Israel
11,254
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
1,264
rank #9
Peak year
2022
1,305 babies
USA, 2025
808
rank #393

Writing and saying Ari

In Hebrew letters the name is ארי, read right to left. Ari is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "arí" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a male given name, equivalent to English Ari

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Ari by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Ari: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Ari in English-speaking countries

Ari in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025808#3932022 (1,030)
United Kingdom2025152#3212023 (222)
England and Wales2025145#3102023 (204)
Scotland20257#4412022 (18)
Ireland20254#6422024 (9)
British Columbia202324#1442013 (24)
Alberta202512#3882022 (20)
Quebec20258#5122021 (11)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Ari has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Ari

How do you write Ari in Hebrew?

Ari is written ארי in Hebrew (with vowel points: אֲרִי). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "arí".

How many people in Israel are named Ari?

11,254 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name ארי: 153 women and 11,101 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Ari a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 98.6% of the people named ארי are men.

What does the name Ari mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, equivalent to English Ari"

Is Ari used outside Israel?

The name Ari appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 808 boys were given it in 2025 (#393), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 152 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.