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Arcelia

#5,934 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Araceli

Arcelia has been given to 1,836 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #5,934 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Arcelia, 2025

1 in 166,000

Arcelia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arcelia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Araceli

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arcelia means

Arcelia is a variant of Araceli.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Arcelia → Araceli. The family’s meaning is “altar + of heaven”, recorded in Spanish with the source elements ara and coeli.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Araceli.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,836 girls were recorded with the name Arcelia between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 46 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,724 in 1950.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,286 in 2020 to #5,934 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,946 in 2015 to #5,934 in 2025.

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 Arcelia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,934
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arcelia 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arcelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arcelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arcelia was born before 1978 — so the typical Arcelia is around 47 today.

Median birth year
1978
About 47 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
15.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,511
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 15.8% of all recorded uses (291).

Is Arcelia 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
+5,281
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+6,352
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,012
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.5%
Peak was 1975 (46)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,724
1950

Spellings of Arcelia

Arcelia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 47.5% against Arcelia's 0.31%.

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 Arcelia is used

Across 1910–2025, Arcelia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 35,369 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 25,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000

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. Arcelia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arcelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,934
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 6,352
Best rank ever
#1,724
1950
Peak year
1975
46 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,836
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Arcelia

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

ArcadiaArchieRomeliaAnnaliaMahaliaArciliaCameliaAthaliaJameliaAmelliaRoseliaOtiliaAmilliaMoreliaEveliaFideliaCamilliaEulaliaAzaliaArcherCamiliaAdaliaKahliaLillia

Sibling names for Arcelia

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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