Ariel

Also Italian (Modern):

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https://www.istat.it/it/dati-analisi-e-prodotti/calcolatori/contanomi
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariele - listed as a variant

Also Portuguese: https://www.behindthename.com/name/ariel/top/brazil

Also a Galician masculine name: http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_masculinos_en_galego

In 2018, 19 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Ariel who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 793rd most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.

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In 2018, 19 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Ariel who is registered male with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 697th most common male first name for living U.S. citizens.

I met a fella from South America, he asked me what my daughter's name is, and when I said "Ariel" he asked if we were Spanish. I said No... he said Ariel is a Spanish name for men, in South America.

This is also used in Spanish. It's strictly masculine. [noted -ed]

A good twin name for URIEL.

This is our daughter's name but we spell it Aryel. We didn't choose it because of the little mermaid! We liked the name from footloose but loved it after hearing the "lioness of God" meaning. I wanted a simpler spelling than Arielle and changing the I to y gave us that plus made it a little more unique as I've never seen this spelling before. We get compliments on her name and the spelling all the time!

To Hello everyone ;
Thank you for your attention.
I have a few things to say on this subject.
Listening to all of your remarks, reminds me of a guy I used to know who liked to comment on things he knew nothing about.
The name Ariel is Hebrew.
אריאל
It is made up of two parts; Ari, meaning "lion", and el, meaning "G-d".
Ari is a male lion, and this is without a doubt a masculine name.
Not unisex, certainly not female.
A Disney cartoon notwithstanding, truth remains truth. What all you readers in cyber-land choose to do with that information is your privilege.
If you wish to use this name for a girl, it must be, "Ariella". That is the only acceptable feminine form of this name.
The world has gotten very strange. I don't know who it was who decided that last names like, Tyler, Taylor, McKenna and MacKenzie are to be first names.
All over there are weird trends catching on.
I urge you all to resist the bizarre, and use good traditional masculine names for boys and feminine names for girls.
To reiterate ; Ariel is 100% a masculine name, the only acceptable feminine form of it being, Ariella.
(If you must call your daughter after a cartoon, why don't you use Mini Mouse or Olive Oil?)

My name is Ariel, and I think it suits me. I have dark features and curly hair. I've always liked my name because it means lioness, and to me that means strong.
The only other Ariel I've met also has dark features. I couldn't really see it on a blonde, and, realistically I couldn't see it on a redhead like the little mermaid.

Actually the first well-known woman who was called Ariel was the historian Ariel Durant (1898-1981). She was born into a Jewish family in Russia and emigrated to the USA as a child. Her original Hebrew name was Chaya and she was called Ida in English as a child. Ariel was a pet name her husband, Will Durant, gave her in the 1920s but she later made it her legal name. Will and Ariel Durant began publishing a popular series of history books called "The Story of Civilization" in 1935. Will and Ariel Durant were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January of 1977, and 1977 was the first year over 100 girls in the USA were named Ariel (104, to be precise.) 1978, when 162 female Ariels were born, is the first year the name makes the top 1000 SSA list.

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The idea of using Ariel as a female given name didn't originate with Durant, however, as there are fairly reliable examples of American women named Ariel born in the early 1800s found in census records.

It has been given a feminine connotation by the Little Mermaid, but the only one I know is a guy and he goes by Aarie because of the pronunciation problems some people seem to have.

Shakespeare's Ariel has been played by both male and female actors. I consider this a name for either gender. Sylvia Plath's horse, and the title of a book of her poems, was also Ariel.

Traditionally Ariel is only used for boys. The female form would be Ariela.