Araceli
Araceli was given to 364 girls in 2025, #746 among girls’ names; 20,406 Americans have been recorded with it since 1939 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 19,800 Americans named Araceli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Araceli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Araceli mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Araceli is “a female given name”
Shortened from María (de) Araceli, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary as the patron of Lucena, Andalusia, also the name of church in Rome (Madonna di Araceli), from Latin ara (“altar”) + coeli (“of heaven”).
/aɾaˈθeli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Araceli?
#746 among girls’ names, 2025
Araceli rose from #1,056 in 2015 to #746 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.14 to 0.23 per 1,000.
573 babies in 2002, the peak
Araceli peaked in 2002, when 573 girls were given it, #487 among girls’ names. The 364 births of 2025 are 64% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 364 | #746 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 388 | #727 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 349 | #803 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 306 | #905 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 284 | #934 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 256 | #995 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 209 | #1,149 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 217 | #1,129 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 226 | #1,115 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 213 | #1,176 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 249 | #1,056 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 216 | #1,151 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 262 | #961 | 0.15 |
| 2012 | 275 | #932 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 328 | #815 | 0.19 |
| 2010 | 328 | #820 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 374 | #763 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 381 | #771 | 0.20 |
| 2007 | 437 | #672 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 517 | #569 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 486 | #588 | 0.26 |
| 2004 | 519 | #548 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 525 | #537 | 0.29 |
| 2002 | 573 | #487 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 480 | #547 | 0.27 |
| 2000 | 422 | #599 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 337 | #674 | 0.19 |
| 1998 | 407 | #593 | 0.23 |
| 1997 | 374 | #606 | 0.21 |
| 1996 | 383 | #595 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 434 | #548 | 0.25 |
| 1994 | 444 | #546 | 0.25 |
| 1993 | 431 | #552 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 456 | #523 | 0.25 |
| 1991 | 489 | #488 | 0.26 |
| 1990 | 424 | #554 | 0.22 |
| 1989 | 402 | #557 | 0.22 |
| 1988 | 286 | #675 | 0.16 |
| 1987 | 259 | #703 | 0.15 |
| 1986 | 315 | #610 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 282 | #651 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 295 | #605 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 298 | #594 | 0.18 |
| 1982 | 367 | #532 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 375 | #522 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 351 | #536 | 0.21 |
| 1979 | 329 | #559 | 0.20 |
| 1978 | 285 | #597 | 0.19 |
| 1977 | 310 | #568 | 0.20 |
| 1976 | 309 | #552 | 0.21 |
| 1975 | 316 | #547 | 0.22 |
| 1974 | 298 | #558 | 0.20 |
| 1973 | 234 | #642 | 0.16 |
| 1972 | 208 | #698 | 0.14 |
| 1971 | 221 | #690 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 163 | #838 | 0.09 |
| 1969 | 118 | #994 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 122 | #934 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 77 | #1,209 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 68 | #1,312 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 74 | #1,252 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 75 | #1,281 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,464 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,628 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,611 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 58 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,671 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,761 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,797 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #3,969 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,817 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,029 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,398 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,445 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,279 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Araceli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Araceli has been given almost only to girls: 138 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Araceli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Araceli, and how old are they?
19,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 20,406 Americans ever recorded as Araceli. The median Araceli alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 37,919 people named Araceli (37,835 women and girls, 84 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,103 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 440 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,310 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,870 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,690 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,520 |
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 Araceli born?
The states with the most babies named Araceli are California, Texas and Arizona, with 58% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 81 | #405 | 3.0× |
| Texas | 80 | #424 | 2.7× |
| Arizona | 18 | #374 | 2.0× |
| Washington | 13 | #515 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 13 | #431 | 0.9× |
| Oregon | 12 | #298 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,253 | 0.5× |
| New Mexico | 11 | #133 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #842 | 0.3× |
| New York | 10 | #1,321 | 0.2× |
Where Araceli is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Araceli is most over-represented in California: since 1939 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Araceli 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 33,402 babies since 1880, Araceli is the most given (61% of them). In 2025 it was given to 364 of their 561 babies (65%), again the 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 Araceli
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 Araceli and names like it
- Compare Araceli and AracelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAraceli peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Araceli since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Araceli: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Araceli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Araceli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.