Aracely
Aracely was given to 151 girls in 2025, #1,427 among girls’ names; 9,917 Americans have been recorded with it since 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,720 Americans named Aracely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aracely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aracely mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Aracely is “a female given name, variant of Araceli”
/aɾaˈθeli/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aracely?
#1,427 among girls’ names, 2025
Aracely rose from #1,494 in 2015 to #1,427 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 85.7 to 93.9 per million.
482 babies in 2003, the peak
Aracely peaked in 2003, when 482 girls were given it, #575 among girls’ names. The 151 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 151 | #1,427 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,319 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,549 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,523 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 126 | #1,652 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,769 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 130 | #1,630 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 118 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 137 | #1,591 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,670 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 153 | #1,494 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 151 | #1,479 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 189 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 239 | #1,041 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 256 | #988 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 324 | #859 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 318 | #875 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 345 | #832 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 387 | #726 | 0.20 |
| 2005 | 368 | #734 | 0.20 |
| 2004 | 370 | #720 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 482 | #575 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 385 | #660 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 380 | #661 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 239 | #914 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 182 | #1,092 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 169 | #1,126 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 142 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 167 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 136 | #1,248 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 167 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 170 | #1,068 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 166 | #1,083 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 188 | #992 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 144 | #1,183 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 156 | #1,079 | 0.08 |
| 1988 | 128 | #1,181 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,328 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 120 | #1,178 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 107 | #1,216 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 115 | #1,151 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,244 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 100 | #1,277 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 132 | #1,068 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 109 | #1,199 | 0.07 |
| 1978 | 98 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 78 | #1,430 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 81 | #1,330 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 101 | #1,146 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,285 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 62 | #1,511 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 75 | #1,337 | 0.05 |
| 1971 | 57 | #1,627 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 50 | #1,781 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,589 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 33 | #2,092 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,169 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,847 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,525 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,638 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,320 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,196 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 10 | #4,197 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,120 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,989 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aracely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aracely has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 70 years of records.
Girls and boys named Aracely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aracely, and how old are they?
9,720 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,917 Americans ever recorded as Aracely. The median Aracely alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 15,016 people named Aracely (14,982 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 75 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 991 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,110 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,730 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,820 |
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 Aracely born?
The states with the most babies named Aracely are Texas, California and Arizona, with 88% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 46 | #664 | 3.1× |
| California | 24 | #1,090 | 2.3× |
| Arizona | 15 | #448 | 2.0× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,259 | 0.9× |
| New York | 6 | #1,853 | 0.3× |
Where Aracely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aracely is most over-represented in Texas: since 1956 it was given 3.1 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 Aracely 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 31,566 babies since 1880, Aracely is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 151 of their 541 babies (28%), 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 Aracely
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 Aracely and names like it
- Compare Aracely and AraceliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAracely peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aracely since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Aracely: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Aracely.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aracely alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.