Arcelia
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1950 · 30 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,836since 1908
Arcelia over time
Rank among girls' names. Arcelia has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 |
| 2019 | #9,112 | 11 |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 |
| 2008 | #8,109 | 15 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #5,999 | 20 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 |
| 2003 | #6,885 | 16 |
| 2002 | #4,498 | 27 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,079 | 30 |
| 1999 | #3,509 | 35 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #3,831 | 28 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #3,290 | 34 |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 |
| 1991 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #3,277 | 27 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 |
| 1984 | #3,069 | 28 |
| 1983 | #2,910 | 29 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #2,723 | 33 |
| 1980 | #2,537 | 37 |
| 1979 | #2,860 | 30 |
| 1978 | #3,009 | 26 |
| 1977 | #2,780 | 29 |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 |
| 1975 | #1,935 | 46 |
| 1974 | #2,433 | 31 |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #2,736 | 26 |
| 1970 | #2,856 | 24 |
| 1969 | #3,318 | 17 |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
| 1964 | #3,692 | 13 |
| 1963 | #3,336 | 15 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 |
| 1960 | #2,573 | 22 |
| 1959 | #2,678 | 19 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 |
| 1955 | #2,725 | 17 |
| 1954 | #2,295 | 22 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #2,671 | 16 |
| 1951 | #2,810 | 14 |
| 1950 | #1,720 | 30 |
| 1949 | #2,620 | 15 |
| 1948 | #2,188 | 20 |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 |
| 1943 | #2,352 | 15 |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 |
| 1941 | #2,397 | 13 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 |
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 |
| 1935 | #3,156 | 8 |
| 1934 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 |
| 1932 | — | |
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| 1930 | #3,345 | 8 |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 |
| 1922 | #3,379 | 9 |
| 1921 | #2,378 | 15 |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 |
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| 1915 | #3,795 | 6 |
| 1914 | #3,618 | 5 |
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| 1908 | #2,101 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arcelia! It came in at #2,101, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1908–1914, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Arcelia is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#958 · 1 in 14,387
- Texas#1,285 · 1 in 22,679
Best ever in a state: #184 in Arizona, 1924.
Show every state
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| California | #958 | 12 | 1 in 14,387 |
| Texas | #1,285 | 5 | 1 in 22,679 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Arcelia
- 5,205 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #5,917)
- 6,225 spots since 2020 (#12,142 → #5,917)
- 5,918 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1908
- Peaked 1950 at #1,720 (30 births)
- Births halved by 1951, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 31,693 girls born in 1975 were named Arcelia (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,720 in 1950, was only 1 in 57,102 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.8% of all girls named Arcelia (291) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #2,101 (1908) | #2,101 |
| 1910s | 19 | #3,452 (1919) | #3,622 |
| 1920s | 100 | #2,378 (1921) | #3,228 |
| 1930s | 76 | #2,424 (1934) | #2,892 |
| 1940s | 125 | #2,188 (1948) | #2,798 |
| 1950s | 174 | #1,720 (1950) | #2,896 |
| 1960s | 160 | #2,573 (1960) | #3,323 |
| 1970s | 291 | #1,935 (1975) | #2,683 |
| 1980s | 252 | #2,537 (1980) | #3,624 |
| 1990s | 269 | #3,290 (1993) | #4,030 |
| 2000s | 198 | #4,079 (2000) | #6,350 |
| 2010s | 96 | #8,701 (2010) | #10,654 |
| 2020s | 71 | #5,917 (2025) | #9,181 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Arcelia in 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 91,906 of them was named Arcelia, which outranked 64.9% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,512Threasa23
- #2,512Veta23
- #2,512Zenaida23
- #2,573Arcelia22
- #2,573Anamaria22
- #2,573Antonina22
- #2,573Audra22
- #2,649Alan21
- #2,649Aleshia21
- #2,649Alyse21
Tied with 75 names at #2,573; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.