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Arcelia

Arcelia reached its high-water mark in 1975 at number 1,935, and has been recorded 1,836 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 5,917th. About 1,500 Arcelias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 42.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Arcelia

By the numbers

Total US births
1,836
Estimated living today
1,500
Median age today
42
Peak year
1975
Best rank
1,935th
Rank in 2025
5,917th
First recorded
1908

How old the living Arcelias are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,836 babies given the name since 1908, about 1,500 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 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 Arcelia is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arcelia is most concentrated in California (7.2×), Texas (3.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1975

The most popular girls’ names the year Arcelia peaked:

All the names of 1975

Related names

Arcelia against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.