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Aracely vs Araseli

American parents have registered 9,917 Aracelys since 1880, against 1,198 Araselis. Aracely is still ahead, with 151 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Aracely Araseli

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 1965, when Aracely had 17 and Araseli had 8.

Side by side

  Aracely Araseli
Total US births 9,9171,198
Most in one year 48248
Babies in 2025 151under 5
Estimated living today 9,7001,200
Median age today 2235
Peak year 20031980
Best rank 575th girls2,128th girls
Rank in 2025 1,427thunranked
First recorded 19561965
Girls / boys 9,906 / 111,198 / 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 Araselis alive today are over 35; half the Aracelys are over 22. That is 13 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 Araseli.