Araceli

#746 for girls in 2025, 364 births · Last seen for boys in 1994 at #5,109
Given to girls 99.3% of the time

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Peak · girls
2002 · 573 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
20,268
since 1939

Araceli over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Araceli has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201939peak #487, 2002girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#746364—
2024#727388—
2023#803349—
2022#905306—
2021#934284—
2020#994256—
2019#1,149209—
2018#1,129217—
2017#1,114226—
2016#1,176213—
2015#1,055249—
2014#1,151216—
2013#961262—
2012#932275—
2011#815328—
2010#819328—
2009#763374—
2008#770381—
2007#672437—
2006#569517—
2005#588486—
2004#548519—
2003#537525—
2002#487573—
2001#547480—
2000#599422—
1999#675337—
1998#593407—
1997#606374—
1996#595383—
1995#548434—
1994#546444#5,10911
1993#552431#8,7005
1992#522456—
1991#488489#6,5197
1990#555424#6,4157
1989#557402#4,81110
1988#675286#7,2705
1987#703259#6,0896
1986#610315#6,7215
1985#651282#5,1477
1984#605295#4,9737
1983#594298#4,9077
1982#532367#5,6196
1981#522375#3,60111
1980#536351#4,9407
1979#559329—
1978#597285#3,61410
1977#568310#4,1648
1976#552309—
1975#547316—
1974#558298#4,1907
1973#642234#4,0547
1972#698208—
1971#690221—
1970#838163—
1969#994118#4,4045
1968#934122—
1967#1,20977—
1966#1,31268—
1965#1,25274—
1964#1,28175—
1963#1,46458—
1962#1,62748—
1961#1,61249—
1960#1,44758—
1959#1,67243—
1958#1,76238—
1957#2,34723—
1956#1,79635—
1955#2,47220—
1954#2,77916—
1953#3,9559—
1952#2,80615—
1951#4,0118—
1950#3,6629—
1949#3,39310—
1948#4,2057—
1947#4,7646—
1946#4,4176—
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First appearance
1939

The first year at least five girls were named Araceli! It came in at #4,250, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1939–1945, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Araceli is popular in 1939

No state had 5 or more girls named Araceli in 1939, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Araceli
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 19 spots since 2024 (#727 → #746)
  • 248 spots since 2020 (#994 → #746)
  • 309 spots since 2015 (#1,055 → #746)
  • Biggest jump: 275 spots in 1968 (#1,209 → #934)
  • Biggest drop: 190 spots in 2014 (#961 → #1,151)
Rise & fade · girls
63 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1939
  • Peaked 2002 at #487 (573 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 52 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1968–2013
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,136
  • Highest: 1 in 3,136 girls born in 2002 were named Araceli (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 4,416 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
Era · girls
The 2000s
  • 23.3% of all girls named Araceli (4,714) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,250 (1939)#4,250
1940s34#3,393 (1949)#4,280
1950s216#1,672 (1959)#2,726
1960s747#934 (1968)#1,313
1970s2,673#547 (1975)#625
1980s3,230#522 (1981)#599
1990s4,179#488 (1991)#568
2000s4,714#487 (2002)#608
2010s2,523#815 (2011)#1,030
2020s1,947#727 (2024)#852

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Araceli in 1939

girls
#4,250
5 births · 1 in 219,322 girls

Top girls' names in 1939

  1. #1Mary54,900
  2. #2Barbara37,257
  3. #3Patricia29,701
  4. #4Betty23,639
  5. #5Shirley20,447
  6. #6Carol20,166
  7. #7Nancy19,723
  8. #8Judith16,625
  9. #9Dorothy15,169
  10. #10Margaret14,949
  11. #4,250Araceli5
More about 1939

girls

1,096,612 girls got a published name in 1939; 1 in 219,322 of them was named Araceli, which outranked 14.1% of the 4,950 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Araceli
  1. #3,782Zenola6
  2. #3,782Zonia6
  3. #3,782Zorina6
  4. #4,250Araceli5
  5. #4,250Abelina5
  6. #4,250Adelmira5
  7. #4,250Adine5

Tied with 700 names at #4,250; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1938
Risers
  1. ↑ 880April#1,805 → #925
  2. ↑ 865Karel#1,703 → #838
  3. ↑ 725Hedy#1,650 → #925
  4. ↑ 722Vivien#1,703 → #981
  5. ↑ 709Karon#1,547 → #838
Fallers
  1. ↓ 712Eulalia#972 → #1,684
  2. ↓ 446Shelvia#955 → #1,401
  3. ↓ 358Naoma#992 → #1,350
  4. ↓ 304Imelda#890 → #1,194
  5. ↓ 279Helaine#870 → #1,149

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1939 →