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Areisy vs Arely

American parents have registered 11,216 Arelys since 1880, against 21 Areisys. Arely is still ahead, with 257 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Areisy against Arely, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Areisy Arely

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

Arely has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1972 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1997, when Areisy had 15 and Arely had 172.

Side by side

  Areisy Arely
Total US births 2111,216
Most in one year 15552
Babies in 2025 under 5257
Estimated living today 2011,000
Median age today 2816
Peak year 19972007
Best rank 6,163rd girls554th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked983rd
First recorded 19971972
Girls / boys 21 / 011,216 / 0

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 Arelys are over 16. That is 12 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 Arely.