Aricela
Aricela was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,175 among girls’ names; 135 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aricela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aricela?
#15,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Aricela fell from #9,542 in 2015 to #15,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
11 babies in 2013, the peak
Aricela peaked in 2013, when 11 girls were given it, #9,678 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,175 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,404 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,203 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,001 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,949 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,036 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,963 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,542 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,816 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,678 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #15,026 | 3.4 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,614 | 3.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,537 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,172 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,372 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,544 | 3.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,258 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,331 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,902 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Aricela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aricela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aricela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aricela, and how old are they?
An estimated 134 Americans named Aricela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 193 people named Aricela (193 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 33,141 babies since 1880, Aricela is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 555 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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 Aricela
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 Aricela and names like it
- Compare Aricela and AraceliBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAricela peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Aricela.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aricela alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.