Araceli Girl
How popular is Araceli?
#746 girl name in 2025
364 baby girls were named Araceli in the US in 2025, making it the 746th most popular girl name.
Araceli popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #746 for girls (▼ 19 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 364 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+46% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,055 in 2015, #994 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2002 (573 girls) |
| Highest rank | #487 in 2002 |
| First recorded | 1939 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Araceli counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Araceli family of names ranked #545 for girls in 2025 (#511 the year before), with 527 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Araceli | 364 | 69% |
| Aracely | 151 | 29% |
| Aracelli | 12 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Araceli is most popular
Babies named Araceli per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Mexico: 1.7 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Arizona: 0.7 per 1,000 (101 girls)
- Nevada: 0.7 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Colorado: 0.5 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Texas: 0.5 per 1,000 (424 girls)
Araceli by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1940s | 34 | #3,392 |
| 1950s | 216 | #1,671 |
| 1960s | 747 | #934 |
| 1970s | 2,673 | #547 |
| 1980s | 3,230 | #522 |
| 1990s | 4,179 | #488 |
| 2000s | 4,714 | #487 |
| 2010s | 2,523 | #815 |
| 2020s | 1,947 | #727 |
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Questions
- Is Araceli a boy or girl name?
- Araceli is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Araceli were girls.
- How popular is the name Araceli?
- 364 baby girls were named Araceli in the US in 2025, making it the 746th most popular girl name.
- When was Araceli most popular?
- Araceli peaked in 2002, when 573 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #487 in 2002.
- How many people are named Araceli?
- 20,406 babies have been named Araceli in the US since 1880. We estimate about 19,913 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Araceli most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Araceli was most common in New Mexico, at 1.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.