Arely
Arely was given to 257 girls in 2025, #984 among girls’ names; 11,216 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,100 Americans named Arely and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arely by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arely mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arely is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arely?
#984 among girls’ names, 2025
Arely fell from #782 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.20 to 0.16 per 1,000.
552 babies in 2007, the peak
Arely peaked in 2007, when 552 girls were given it, #554 among girls’ names. The 257 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 257 | #984 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 287 | #924 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 326 | #839 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 206 | #1,172 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 212 | #1,154 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 247 | #1,019 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,030 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 283 | #941 | 0.17 |
| 2017 | 280 | #942 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 370 | #769 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 361 | #782 | 0.20 |
| 2014 | 377 | #741 | 0.21 |
| 2013 | 383 | #719 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 457 | #625 | 0.26 |
| 2011 | 513 | #565 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 446 | #656 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 461 | #644 | 0.25 |
| 2008 | 498 | #613 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 552 | #554 | 0.29 |
| 2006 | 508 | #577 | 0.27 |
| 2005 | 462 | #612 | 0.25 |
| 2004 | 484 | #581 | 0.26 |
| 2003 | 457 | #598 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 359 | #698 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 293 | #805 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 242 | #903 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 199 | #1,021 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 196 | #1,014 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 172 | #1,090 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 151 | #1,194 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 118 | #1,389 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 139 | #1,236 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 131 | #1,289 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 115 | #1,414 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,854 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 49 | #2,368 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,867 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,654 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,253 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,875 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,359 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 14 | #4,975 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,336 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,725 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,625 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,605 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,527 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,946 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,328 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arely a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arely has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arely: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arely, and how old are they?
11,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,216 Americans ever recorded as Arely. The median Arely alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 10,324 people named Arely (10,261 women and girls, 63 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,658 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 63 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 990 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6,240 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,810 |
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 Arely born?
The states with the most babies named Arely are Texas, California and Arizona, with 70% 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 | 74 | #449 | 2.6× |
| California | 70 | #480 | 2.2× |
| Arizona | 9 | #687 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,027 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,559 | 0.4× |
| Colorado | 7 | #715 | 1.4× |
| New York | 7 | #1,672 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,154 | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,383 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 6 | #926 | 0.3× |
Where Arely is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arely is most over-represented in Texas: since 1972 it was given 2.6 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 Arely 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 26,901 babies since 1880, Arely is the most given (42% of them). In 2025 it was given to 257 of their 711 babies (36%), 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 Arely
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 Arely and names like it
- Compare Arely and AreliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArely peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arely since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Arely.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arely alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.