Arabelle
Arabelle was given to 93 girls in 2025, #2,037 among girls’ names; 2,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Arabelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arabelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arabelle?
#2,037 among girls’ names, 2025
Arabelle fell from #1,610 in 2015 to #2,037 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 74.5 to 57.9 per million.
147 babies in 2017, the peak
Arabelle peaked in 2017, when 147 girls were given it, #1,505 among girls’ names. The 93 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,037 | 57.9 |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,135 | 54.9 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,739 | 73.5 |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,106 | 55.5 |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,366 | 46.3 |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,949 | 60.6 |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,013 | 56.6 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,749 | 68.8 |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,505 | 85.1 |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,713 | 70.0 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 133 | #1,610 | 74.5 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,577 | 76.7 |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,816 | 63.8 |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,082 | 52.2 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,641 | 38.1 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,939 | 32.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,417 | 26.1 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,016 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,140 | 19.2 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,268 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,712 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,246 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,606 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,328 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,175 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,241 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,854 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,048 | 6.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,870 | 5.1 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,393 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,864 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,216 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,119 | 7.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,914 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,509 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,359 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,076 | 5.4 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,778 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,573 | 6.7 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,331 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,785 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,670 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,472 | 11.6 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,836 | 18.3 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,202 | 13.8 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,361 | 12.5 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,159 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,381 | 12.1 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,657 | 20.3 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,034 | 15.3 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,390 | 12.2 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,605 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,892 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,851 | 17.9 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,339 | 30.3 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,547 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,498 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,608 | 22.9 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,443 | 26.7 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,405 | 25.7 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,601 | 21.0 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,361 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,284 | 28.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arabelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arabelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arabelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arabelle, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 2,272 Americans ever recorded as Arabelle. The median Arabelle alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,407 people named Arabelle (1,405 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,402 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 9 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 479 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,420 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Arabelle born?
The states with the most babies named Arabelle are California, Texas and Ohio, with 64% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,964 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 9 | #2,232 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 9 | #965 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,258 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,233 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,461 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arabelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,079 babies since 1880, Arabelle is the second most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 93 of their 1,641 babies (5.7%), again the second most given.
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 Arabelle
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Arabelle and names like it
- Compare Arabelle and ArabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Arabelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arabelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
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