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
- Peak · girls
- 2002 · 573 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,268since 1939
Araceli over time
Rank among girls' names. Araceli has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #746 | 364 | — | |
| 2024 | #727 | 388 | — | |
| 2023 | #803 | 349 | — | |
| 2022 | #905 | 306 | — | |
| 2021 | #934 | 284 | — | |
| 2020 | #994 | 256 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,149 | 209 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,129 | 217 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,114 | 226 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,176 | 213 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,055 | 249 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,151 | 216 | — | |
| 2013 | #961 | 262 | — | |
| 2012 | #932 | 275 | — | |
| 2011 | #815 | 328 | — | |
| 2010 | #819 | 328 | — | |
| 2009 | #763 | 374 | — | |
| 2008 | #770 | 381 | — | |
| 2007 | #672 | 437 | — | |
| 2006 | #569 | 517 | — | |
| 2005 | #588 | 486 | — | |
| 2004 | #548 | 519 | — | |
| 2003 | #537 | 525 | — | |
| 2002 | #487 | 573 | — | |
| 2001 | #547 | 480 | — | |
| 2000 | #599 | 422 | — | |
| 1999 | #675 | 337 | — | |
| 1998 | #593 | 407 | — | |
| 1997 | #606 | 374 | — | |
| 1996 | #595 | 383 | — | |
| 1995 | #548 | 434 | — | |
| 1994 | #546 | 444 | #5,109 | 11 |
| 1993 | #552 | 431 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #522 | 456 | — | |
| 1991 | #488 | 489 | #6,519 | 7 |
| 1990 | #555 | 424 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #557 | 402 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #675 | 286 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #703 | 259 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #610 | 315 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #651 | 282 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #605 | 295 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #594 | 298 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #532 | 367 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #522 | 375 | #3,601 | 11 |
| 1980 | #536 | 351 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #559 | 329 | — | |
| 1978 | #597 | 285 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #568 | 310 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #552 | 309 | — | |
| 1975 | #547 | 316 | — | |
| 1974 | #558 | 298 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #642 | 234 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #698 | 208 | — | |
| 1971 | #690 | 221 | — | |
| 1970 | #838 | 163 | — | |
| 1969 | #994 | 118 | #4,404 | 5 |
| 1968 | #934 | 122 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,209 | 77 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,312 | 68 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,252 | 74 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,281 | 75 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,464 | 58 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,627 | 48 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,612 | 49 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,447 | 58 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,672 | 43 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,762 | 38 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,796 | 35 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,205 | 7 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
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| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
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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 1962
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#504 · 1 in 4,095
- California#881 · 1 in 12,392
Best ever in a state: #130 in New Mexico, 2025.
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| Texas | #504 | 27 | 1 in 4,095 |
| California | #881 | 14 | 1 in 12,392 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Araceli
- 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)
- Debuted 1939
- Peaked 2002 at #487 (573 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 52 yrs · run 1968–2013
- 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%)
- 23.3% of all girls named Araceli (4,714) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,250 |
| 1940s | 34 | #3,393 (1949) | #4,280 |
| 1950s | 216 | #1,672 (1959) | #2,726 |
| 1960s | 747 | #934 (1968) | #1,313 |
| 1970s | 2,673 | #547 (1975) | #625 |
| 1980s | 3,230 | #522 (1981) | #599 |
| 1990s | 4,179 | #488 (1991) | #568 |
| 2000s | 4,714 | #487 (2002) | #608 |
| 2010s | 2,523 | #815 (2011) | #1,030 |
| 2020s | 1,947 | #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 1962
Top girls' names in 1962
More about 1962
girls
1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 40,971 of them was named Araceli, which outranked 78.5% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,607Resa49
- #1,607Sheilah49
- #1,607Synthia49
- #1,627Araceli48
- #1,627Anette48
- #1,627Anitra48
- #1,627Charline48
- #1,651Alexa47
- #1,651Candis47
- #1,651Darcel47
Tied with 23 names at #1,627; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.