Aria is the Italian word for "air" and for a solo "song" in an opera; the Hebrew Ariah means "lioness", and in Persian it is a boys' name meaning "noble". Characters in Pretty Little Liars and Game of Thrones pushed it into American nurseries. Aria was at number 957 in 2000, entered the top 100 in 2012, peaked at nineteenth in 2018 and ranks twenty-sixth in 2025.