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Araceli

Meaning: Altar of heaven
Origin: Spanish (from Latin ara caeli)

Girl's name · #746 in the US (2025) · 2000s wave

Popularity over time

Araceli reached #487 in 2002 and has eased to #746 since. About 20,000 girls have carried it since 1939.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 21 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#195 in Mexico (2024) · #1,355 in Ecuador (2025).

Famous Aracelis

Araceli Segarra Roca — Catalan mountaineer, host and motivational speaker
Araceli González — Argentine actress
Araceli Navarro — Olympic fencer
Araceli Gilbert Bolognesi — Ecuadorian artist (1913-1993)
Araceli Sánchez Urquijo — First female civil engineer practitioner in Spain

What Aracelis become

Among 92 notable people named Araceli:

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Aracely (#1427), Araceli would rank around #578 with about 520 births last year — the newborns split about 71/29 between Araceli and Aracely.

Similar names: Aracely · Paulina · Arely · Yareli · Dulce · Alondra

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