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Areli vs Arelys

American parents have registered 6,739 Arelis since 1880, against 542 Arelyses. Areli is still ahead, with 185 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Areli against Arelys, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Areli Arelys

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

Areli has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1966 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1984, when Areli had 21 and Arelys had 12.

Side by side

  Areli Arelys
Total US births 6,739542
Most in one year 33069
Babies in 2025 18527
Estimated living today 6,700540
Median age today 1818
Peak year 20082023
Best rank 850th girls2,555th girls
Rank in 2025 1,261st4,878th
First recorded 19661978
Girls / boys 6,624 / 115542 / 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.

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: Areli and Arelys.