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Areisy vs Areli

American parents have registered 6,739 Arelis since 1880, against 21 Areisys. Areli is still ahead, with 185 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Areisy 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 1997, when Areisy had 15 and Areli had 130.

Side by side

  Areisy Areli
Total US births 216,739
Most in one year 15330
Babies in 2025 under 5185
Estimated living today 206,700
Median age today 2818
Peak year 19972008
Best rank 6,163rd girls850th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,261st
First recorded 19971966
Girls / boys 21 / 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 Areisys alive today are over 28; half the Arelis are over 18. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Areisy and Areli.