Aricela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-ree-SEH-la
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Aricela is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “altar of heaven”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Aricela mean?
Latin: spelling of Spanish Araceli, from Latin ara coeli
“altar of heaven”
Probably a spelling of Araceli, from the Latin ara coeli, meaning altar of heaven, a title of the Virgin Mary.
Is Aricela a girl's or a boy's name?
Aricela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Aricela in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #14,937among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Aricela, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Aricela in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Aricela in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Aricela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Antonella Luciana Avianna Alora Arabella Luna Aliana Amora Ariella Ariana Ximena Lucianna
Names related to Aricela
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Aurora Emily Florence Mabel Nora Rosie Emilia Max Nova Lucy Julian Clara
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, “Aricela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aricela, updated 20 October 2026.