Arabela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-ra-BEL-a
- Origin
- Scottish
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Arabela is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Arabela mean?
Scottish: spelling of Arabella; medieval Scottish name of uncertain origin
Probably a medieval Scottish variant of Annabel, later linked to Latin orabilis, 'yielding to prayer'.
Meaning borrowed from Arabella. More on Wiktionary.
Is Arabela a girl's or a boy's name?
Arabela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Arabela in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 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, 6 girls in the UK were named Arabela, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls.
2025 had the most girls named Arabela of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.
In 2025, 1,498 girls in the UK were given Arabela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #31, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Arabela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
How popular is Arabela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Arabela, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2012, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1945.
2025 had more girls named Arabela than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Arabela in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,443 girls in the US were given Arabela or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #242, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Arabela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,800 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,698 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 0 | – |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,554 |
Nicknames for Arabela
Names like Arabela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Abeeha, Amira, Ariana, Ailsa, Afifa, Aliyana, Aziza, Aliha, Amayra, Areeba, Aiza, Aleeha
Other spellings of Arabela
Names related to Arabela
Arabelle, Aribella, Airabella, Arabell, Ariabella, Ayrabella, Arabel
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Logan, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Arabela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arabela, updated 20 October 2026.