Shem Tov Boy's nameOrigin: HebrewIn Israel: rising
AryeIn Hebrew: אריה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel
With vowel points: אַרְיֵהRomanization: aryé
Arye (Hebrew: אריה) is a boy's name of Hebrew origin. 16,206 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 254 boys and ranked #79. Its peak year was 1952, with 470 babies.
- People in Israel
- 16,206
- born 1949–2024
- Babies in 2024
- 254
- rank #79
- Peak year
- 1952
- 470 babies
- USA
- —
- not in the SSA list
Writing and saying Arye
In Hebrew letters the name is אריה, read right to left. Arye 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 "aryé" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).
Meaning and origin
- a male given name, Arye and Aryeh
Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔarway-. Cognate with Ge'ez አርዌ (ʾärwe, “animal, beast”). By surface analysis, אֲרִי + ־ֵה.
Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.
Arye by year in Israel
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).
per 10,000 babies of the same sex
Related Israeli names
Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.
Questions about Arye
How do you write Arye in Hebrew?
Arye is written אריה in Hebrew (with vowel points: אַרְיֵה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "aryé".
How many people in Israel are named Arye?
16,206 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אריה: 132 women and 16,074 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 Arye a boy's or a girl's name?
In Israel it is almost always a boy's name: 99.2% of the people named אריה are men.
What does the name Arye mean?
English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, Arye and Aryeh" Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔarway-. Cognate with Ge'ez አርዌ (ʾärwe, “animal, beast”). By surface analysis, אֲרִי + ־ֵה.
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.