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Arabelle

The girl's name Arabelle has been in the national records since 1893, with 2,272 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 2,036th. About 1,900 Arabelles are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Arabelle

By the numbers

Total US births
2,272
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
9
Peak year
2017
Best rank
1,505th
Rank in 2025
2,036th
First recorded
1893

How old the living Arabelles are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,272 babies given the name since 1893, about 1,900 are alive — 85 in every hundred. Roughly 1,700 of them are children and 12 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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 Arabelle is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arabelle is most concentrated in Florida (3.0×), Texas (2.7×), California (2.6×), Colorado (2.1×).

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

Names of 2017

The most popular girls’ names the year Arabelle peaked:

All the names of 2017

Arabelle elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Arabelle 233 1,352nd
France girls Arabelle 140 882nd
Ireland girls Arabelle 7 747th
Scotland girls Arabelle 7 638th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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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.