Arelly
Arelly was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,187 among girls’ names; 307 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arelly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arelly?
#10,187 among girls’ names, 2025
Arelly rose from #13,146 in 2015 to #10,187 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.6 per million.
23 babies in 2004, the peak
Arelly peaked in 2004, when 23 girls were given it, #5,387 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,187 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,520 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,619 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,643 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,972 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,035 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,896 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,146 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,031 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,799 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #13,643 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,470 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,404 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,095 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,577 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,122 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,680 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,206 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,387 | 12.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,328 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,899 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,235 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,225 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,843 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,330 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,945 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,906 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,612 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,617 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arelly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arelly has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arelly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arelly, and how old are they?
An estimated 304 Americans named Arelly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 299 people named Arelly (297 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Arelly?
Arelly is a less common spelling of Arely: SSA has recorded 307 Arelly and 11,216 Arely since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 73,518 babies since 1880, Arelly is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 2,875 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Arelly
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 Arelly and names like it
- Compare Arelly and ArelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArelly peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arelly since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Arelly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arelly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.