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Acelin

Gender
Boy
Say it
AS-eh-lin
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Acelin is a boys' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

Where does Acelin come from?

Germanic: medieval Norman name Ascelin, a Germanic diminutive

Is Acelin a girl's or a boy's name?

Acelin is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Acelin in the US?

Rank in 2025
9,710th among boys
Babies in 2025
7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Acelin, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2012, with 19 boys. It first appears in the records in 2006.

Half of all the boys named Acelin in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

2006Busiest: 19 in 20122025
Acelin in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20245#12,341
20230–
20227#9,815
20210–
20200–
20197#9,750
20185#12,150
20175#12,241
20167#9,659
20155#12,080
20149#8,124
201313#6,236
201219#4,857
201114#5,939
201016#5,475
200911#7,231
20080–
20075#12,361
20067#9,579

Names like Acelin

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

More Germanic names

Every Germanic name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Acelin: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/acelin, updated 20 October 2026.