Meaning not yet researched.
Arabelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 93 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,284 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,284 in 1893; #2,037 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arabelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,037 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #1,284.
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Arabelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 93 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,284 in 1893 · most girls in one year: 147 (2017).
In 2025, 93 US girls were named Arabelle, making it the 2,037th most common girls’ name of the year, up 98 places from #2,135 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 89 girls named Arabelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,284, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 147, in 2017. For comparison, it was #1,610 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arabelle in 63 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 6 babies. In all, 2,272 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,082 babies named Arabelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,048 US girls were named Arabelle; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 17,282 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arabelle ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #965 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Aribelle, Arabell and Airabelle are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ara, Arry, Bella and Belle.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aribelle (200), Arabell (188), Airabelle (11), Arrabelle (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 9 | #965 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,233 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,258 | #1,671 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,461 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,964 | #1,540 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,232 | #1,936 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 93 | #2,037 | — | — |
| 2024 | 89 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,739 | — | — |
| 2022 | 91 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 2021 | 76 | #2,366 | — | — |
| 2020 | 98 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,749 | — | — |
| 2017 | 147 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2015 | 133 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,577 | — | — |
| 2013 | 112 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2012 | 92 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,642 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,017 | — | — |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,269 | — | — |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,716 | — | — |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,251 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,611 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,334 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,182 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,249 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,861 | — | — |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,054 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,875 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,395 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,916 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,361 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,780 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,333 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,786 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,671 | — | — |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,472 | — | — |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,034 | — | — |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,391 | — | — |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,892 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,444 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,284 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).