Arabella
Arabella reached its high-water mark in 2014 at number 174, and has been recorded 27,957 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 213th. About 27,000 Arabellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arabella
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 27,957
- Estimated living today
- 27,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 174th
- Rank in 2025
- 213th
- First recorded
- 1881
How old the living Arabellas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 27,957 babies given the name since 1881, about 27,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 25,000 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
used in Scotland since the sixteenth century; possibly from Latin orabilis (“yielding to prayer”) or a variant of Annabel.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Arabellas
- Arabella Stanton (born 2014)British actress
- Arabella Kiesbauer (born 1969)German talk show host
- Arabella Churchill (1648–1730)Mistress of James II of England
- Arabella Elizabeth Roupell (1817–1914)British painter, botanical and scientific illustrator
People named Arabella with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arabella is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arabella is most concentrated in Nevada (3.2×), Arizona (2.1×), Florida (1.9×), Colorado (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Arabella peaked:
Arabella elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Arabella | 12,655 | 22nd |
| Scotland girls | Arabella | 537 | 42nd |
| Ireland girls | Arabella | 347 | 96th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Arabella | 178 | 84th |
| New Zealand girls | Arabella | 87 | 88th |
| France girls | Arabella | 45 | 3,750th |
| Switzerland girls | Arabella | 30 | 1,140th |
| Poland girls | Arabella | 12 birth registrations | 500th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Arabella: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Arabella | 20 | 0.002% | 995th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Arabella | 9 | 0.002% | 647th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Arabella | 1 | 0.002% | 169th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Arabella among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Arabella | 30 | 70 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Arabella against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.