Arabella

What Arabella means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Arabella yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Arabella?

US: Steady: #194 in 2015, #213 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #95 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 1,890 girls got the name (#156 that year). First in the US records in 1881.

How common

• About 1 in 1,129 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 185 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 194 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (3.55 per 1,000 girls), AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.89 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Arabella is #213 in the US and #22 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Arabella were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aribella80 US · 7 E&W
• Airabella18 US
• Arabela12 US · 6 E&W
• Arrabella8 US · 8 E&W
• Orabella7 US · 3 E&W
• Erabella9 US
• Ayrabella5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Arabella

Girls

• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*
• Stella#52“star”^*
• Lucy#24“light”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Clara#63“bright, shining, clear”^*
• Liliana#78Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*

For a brother

• Atticus#281“the Attic, the Athenian, a cognomen”^*
• Lucas#10Editor’s note Up from #16 in 2015 to #10 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 170 US boys in the 2025 records
• Titus#358“honorable”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Lucian#462Editor’s note Up from #633 in 2015 to #462 in 2025 in the US

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Arabella’s. Rank is US 2025.