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Areanna vs Areli

American parents have registered 6,739 Arelis since 1880, against 645 Areannas. Areli is still ahead, with 185 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Areanna Areli

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 1998, when Areanna had 38 and Areli had 122.

Side by side

  Areanna Areli
Total US births 6456,739
Most in one year 45330
Babies in 2025 under 5185
Estimated living today 6406,700
Median age today 2118
Peak year 20002008
Best rank 3,070th girls850th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,261st
First recorded 19891966
Girls / boys 645 / 06,624 / 115

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 Areannas alive today are over 21; half the Arelis are over 18. That is 3 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: Areanna and Areli.