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Aracely

#1,427 in 2025Girls' name

Altar + of heaven, through Araceli

Aracely has been given to 9,917 babies in the U.S. since 1956. In 2025 it ranked #1,427 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 482 recorded.

Babies named Aracely, 2025

1 in 22,000

Aracely over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aracely: meaning, origin, and history

Altar + of heaven, through Araceli

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aracely means

Aracely belongs to the name family reached through Aracely → Araceli. Its meaning is “altar + of heaven”.

Origin, language, and formation

Aracely is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Araceli.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Aracely is pronounced /aɾaˈθeli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,906 girls were recorded with the name Aracely between 1956 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 482 in 2003; its best national rank was #575 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,769 in 2020 to #1,427 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,494 in 2015 to #1,427 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Aracely between 1976 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,637 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aracely?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 22,000
151 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,427
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aracely sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,219 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aracely. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aracelys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aracely was born before 2003 — so the typical Aracely is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,906
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (3,598).

Is Aracely rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+342
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+67
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.99×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.3%
Peak was 2003 (482)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#575
2003

Spellings of Aracely

Aracely is not the most common spelling — Tracey is, with 58.2% against Aracely's 6.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aracely is used

Across 2016–2025, Aracely was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 8,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 4,167
  3. 3California1 in 7,143
  4. 4Florida1 in 16,667
  5. 5Colorado1 in 20,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Washington1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aracely around the world

Where Aracely ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Canada
    2011–2011
    #3,211
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aracely

People whose public names include Aracely, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aracely by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,427
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 342
Best rank ever
#575
2003
Peak year
2003
482 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,906
Count in 2025
151

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,637
1976
Peak year
1993
6 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aracely

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aracely

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aracely, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aracely

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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