Araceli

A girls’ name of Latin origin, meaning altar of heaven.

Babies a year
225
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#746
down from #723
UK popularity
#5927
3 babies

How Araceli has moved

US popularity rank, 2020–2025. Lower is more popular.
#642#858#1074202020232025#746

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YearUS rank
2020#993
2021#934
2022#903
2023#803
2024#723
2025#746

Araceli by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Araceli. In the US, 225 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 573 babies in 2002, making it a 2000s name.

At its height, in 2005, about 1 in 4,200 American girls born that year was called Araceli.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Araceli. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Aracelyaltar of heaven134 in the US (2017)
  • Aracellialtar of heaven; from ara coeli8 in the US (2017)
  • Araneli5 in the US (2017)
  • Arelilion of god; a form of Ariel120 in the US (2017)
  • Arabelayielding to prayer; a form of Arabella6 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Arabelyielding to prayer; a form of Arabella7 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Araceli

Names that are said the same way as Araceli, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Other names that mean the sky or heaven

Like Araceli, each of these has the sky or heaven in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Leilaniheavenly flower2,264 in the US (2017)
  • Irisrainbow; goddess of the rainbow759 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Heavensky; the abode of god967 in the US (2017)
  • Skyesky; the Isle of Skye214 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Celesteheavenly, celestial671 in the US (2017)
  • Itzelrainbow lady635 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Araceli

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