Acelya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-CHEL-yah
- Origin
- Turkish
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Acelya is a girls' name of Turkish origin, meaning “azalea”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Acelya mean?
Turkish: Turkish word, written Acelya
“azalea”
From Turkish acelya 'azalea'; in Turkish it is written with a c-cedilla, said 'ch'.
Is Acelya a girl's or a boy's name?
Acelya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Acelya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Acelya, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 6 girls.
2025 had more girls named Acelya than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Acelya in the UK since 1996 were born between 2002 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Acelya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 4 | #4,744 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 3 | #6,003 |
| 2012 | 3 | #6,108 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #5,938 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 3 | #5,415 |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 3 | #4,976 |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 6 | #2,877 |
| 2002 | 4 | #3,556 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
| 2000 | 4 | #3,399 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 4 | #3,310 |
Names like Acelya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Anna, Ellie, Abigail, Jessica, Jasmine, Emily, Emma, Madeline, Molly, Ella, Erin, Lydia
More Turkish names
Ayla, Aylin, Alara, Ayda, Orhan, Ayzel, Kaya, Aydin, Aslan, Eren, Evren, Ayaz, Ela, Aylah, Aleyna, Deniz
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Acelya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/acelya, updated 20 October 2026.