Acel
Acel was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 79 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Acel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Acel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,831, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 1919, the peak
Acel peaked in 1919, when 10 boys were given it, #2,664 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #10,831 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,157 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #3,540 | 3.5 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,000 | 4.6 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,154 | 7.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,349 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,014 | 8.3 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,664 | 10.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,367 | 6.9 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,830 | 9.4 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 6 | #2,495 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,545 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Acel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Acel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Acel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Acel, and how old are they?
An estimated 13 Americans named Acel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 217 people named Acel (21 women and girls, 196 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,763 babies since 1880, Acel is the fifth most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 none of their 37 babies recorded by SSA was a Acel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Acel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Attilio | 1,065 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Acel and names like it
- Compare Acel and AkilBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAcel peaked in 1919.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Acel.
- Names starting with AMost given first.