Arabella Girl
How popular is Arabella?
#213 girl name in 2025
1,423 baby girls were named Arabella in the US in 2025, making it the 213th most popular girl name.
Arabella popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #213 for girls (▼ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,423 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-16% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #194 in 2015, #202 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (1,914 girls) |
| Highest rank | #156 in 2017 |
| First recorded | 1881 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Arabella counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Arabella family of names ranked #230 for girls in 2025 (#218 the year before), with 1,466 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Arabella | 1,423 | 97% |
| Airabella | 18 | 1% |
| Ayrabella | 5 | 0% |
| Arrabella | 8 | 1% |
| Arabela | 12 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Arabella is most popular
Babies named Arabella per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 2.9 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- Hawaii: 2.5 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- New Mexico: 2.3 per 1,000 (56 girls)
- Nevada: 2.1 per 1,000 (96 girls)
- Maine: 1.9 per 1,000 (29 girls)
Arabella by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 48 | #658 |
| 1890s | 62 | #955 |
| 1900s | 85 | #1,084 |
| 1910s | 167 | #1,241 |
| 1920s | 166 | #1,816 |
| 1930s | 95 | #2,306 |
| 1940s | 62 | #3,442 |
| 1950s | 72 | #3,371 |
| 1960s | 69 | #4,052 |
| 1970s | 52 | #5,108 |
| 1980s | 45 | #6,321 |
| 1990s | 305 | #2,121 |
| 2000s | 3,108 | #448 |
| 2010s | 15,120 | #156 |
| 2020s | 8,501 | #195 |
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Questions
- Is Arabella a boy or girl name?
- Arabella is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Arabella were girls.
- How popular is the name Arabella?
- 1,423 baby girls were named Arabella in the US in 2025, making it the 213th most popular girl name.
- When was Arabella most popular?
- Arabella peaked in 2014, when 1,914 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #156 in 2017.
- How many people are named Arabella?
- 27,957 babies have been named Arabella in the US since 1880. We estimate about 27,181 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Arabella most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Arabella was most common in West Virginia, at 2.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.