Arcelia
Arcelia was given to 20 girls in 2025, #5,934 among girls’ names; 1,836 Americans have been recorded with it since 1908 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Arcelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 27 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arcelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arcelia?
#5,934 among girls’ names, 2025
Arcelia rose from #11,946 in 2015 to #5,934 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 12.4 per million.
46 babies in 1975, the peak
Arcelia peaked in 1975, when 46 girls were given it, #1,937 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,934 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,215 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,278 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,740 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,026 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,286 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,176 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,518 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,782 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,527 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (108)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #11,946 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,217 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,339 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,778 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,464 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,757 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,499 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,149 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,845 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,383 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,028 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,518 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,917 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,507 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,835 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,083 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,509 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,376 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,235 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,835 | 16.0 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,220 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,019 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 34 | #3,290 | 18.8 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,089 | 13.6 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,632 | 15.5 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,126 | 12.6 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,022 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,617 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,481 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,277 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,737 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,074 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,912 | 17.4 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,900 | 11.8 |
| 1981 | 33 | #2,729 | 19.8 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,540 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 30 | #2,865 | 18.7 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,010 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 29 | #2,782 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,797 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 46 | #1,937 | 31.6 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,435 | 21.1 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,460 | 20.6 |
| 1972 | 22 | #2,980 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,741 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,863 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,324 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,635 | 14.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,310 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,758 | 11.8 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,749 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,700 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,343 | 7.8 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,441 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,463 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,574 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,681 | 9.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,757 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,349 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,936 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,732 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 22 | #2,299 | 11.3 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,070 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,675 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,814 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,724 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,627 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,189 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,457 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,483 | 9.5 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,399 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,630 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,351 | 10.8 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,754 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,404 | 10.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,744 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,442 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,948 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,455 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,868 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,166 | 7.6 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,428 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,547 | 10.9 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,360 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,144 | 8.1 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,779 | 9.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,837 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,585 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,369 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 14 | #2,520 | 11.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,657 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,393 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,382 | 12.2 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,739 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,470 | 7.1 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,814 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,645 | 6.6 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,122 | 15.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arcelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arcelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 108 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arcelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arcelia, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 1,836 Americans ever recorded as Arcelia. The median Arcelia alive today is 43 years old; half are between 27 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 4,767 people named Arcelia (4,760 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,508 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.2 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 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 241 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 383 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 394 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 307 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
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 Arcelia born?
The states with the most babies named Arcelia are California, Texas and Arizona, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 639 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Texas | 216 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 17 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New Mexico | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Arcelia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arcelia is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 3.3 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 Arcelia 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 23,348 babies since 1880, Arcelia is the second most given (7.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 404 babies (5.0%), 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 Arcelia
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 Arcelia and names like it
- Compare Arcelia and AraceliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sArcelia peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arcelia since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Arcelia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Arcelia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.