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Aracely vs Aralynn

American parents have registered 9,917 Aracelys since 1880, against 842 Aralynns. Aracely is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aracely Aralynn

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 2013, when Aracely had 171 and Aralynn had 84.

Side by side

  Aracely Aralynn
Total US births 9,917842
Most in one year 48284
Babies in 2025 15127
Estimated living today 9,700840
Median age today 2211
Peak year 20032013
Best rank 575th girls2,211th girls
Rank in 2025 1,427th4,878th
First recorded 19562003
Girls / boys 9,906 / 11842 / 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 Aralynns 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 Aralynn.