Girls' name · since 1994

Aricela

135 babies named Aricela in U.S. Social Security records since 1994, with the highest year being 2013. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#23,836 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,668 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
135
born since 1994
2010s
peak decade

Aricela currently ranks #15668 among girls' names in America, with 135 babies recorded since 1994.

Aricela has 135 recorded births among girls since 1994, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15668 as of the latest data, more common than 9% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1994 to 2025.

  • #23,836 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #15,668 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 135 born since 1994
  • 2010s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aricela ranks #23,836 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,668 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 135 born since 1994, peaking in the 2010s.

#23,836 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#15,668 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
135
born since 1994
2010s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%9.4%
Aricela vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Aricela's 135 recorded births place it above 66.92% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Aricela compares

135 30th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Aricela's all-time total is 64% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Aricela Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 135 376 567,345
Peak-year births 11 21 19,840

Aricela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Aricela splits its recorded history at 2013: 59% of all births land in the more recent half, 41% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1998 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2013 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Aricela popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2013)
11
Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
4681012 1994200320062013201620192025 5

Aricela by decade

2010s is the heaviest window (63 births, 47% of the file).

2010s was Aricela's strongest decade.

63 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 47% of all-time use.

Aricela births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2010s at 63 births (47% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Aricela?
135 babies have been named Aricela since 1994. All-time, it sits at #23,836 of 72,339 girls' names by recorded births. In 2025, it ranks #15,668 of 17,297 among girls. The peak year was 2013 with 11 births.
Where does Aricela sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Aricela ranks #23,836 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,668 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Aricela most popular?
Aricela was most popular in the 2010s decade with 63 total births. The single peak year was 2013.
How long has the name Aricela been used?
The SSA has tracked Aricela since 1994 -- 32 years through the most recent 2025 data.
What names are similar to Aricela?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Ariana, Arianna, Aria, Ariel, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

What to do with Aricela's data

  • Aricela's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (63 total births) through the 2020s (22) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.

Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Aricela: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1994–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Aricela draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.