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Aracely vs Aralyn

American parents have registered 9,917 Aracelys since 1880, against 1,000 Aralyns. Aracely is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aracely against Aralyn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aracely Aralyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aracely has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1956 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2017, when Aracely had 137 and Aralyn had 79.

Side by side

  Aracely Aralyn
Total US births 9,9171,000
Most in one year 48279
Babies in 2025 15125
Estimated living today 9,700990
Median age today 2211
Peak year 20032017
Best rank 575th girls2,320th girls
Rank in 2025 1,427th5,099th
First recorded 19561992
Girls / boys 9,906 / 111,000 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Aracelys alive today are over 22; half the Aralyns are over 11. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aracely and Aralyn.