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Arrabella

Gender
Girl
Say it
a-ra-BEL-a
Origin
Scottish
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Arrabella is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

Where does Arrabella come from?

Scottish: spelling of Arabella

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

Arrabella is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Arrabella in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,101among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 21% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Arrabella, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 14 girls.

2025 had fewer girls named Arrabella than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Arrabella in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,498 girls in the UK were given Arrabella or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #31, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

2003Busiest: 14 in 20202025
Arrabella in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
20249#2,832
20239#2,841
202213#2,157
202113#2,202
202014#2,046
201910#2,590
20189#2,825
201712#2,336
20167#3,389
201510#2,629
20149#2,809
20136#3,719
20127#3,471
20117#3,360
20103#5,938
20093#5,801
20080–
20073#5,415
20060–
20050–
20040–
20033#4,560

How popular is Arrabella in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Arrabella, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.

Half of all the girls named Arrabella in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,443 girls in the US were given Arrabella or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #242, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

2005Busiest: 18 in 20132025
Arrabella in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20240–
20239#10,307
20226#13,586
202110#9,557
202011#8,948
201915#7,338
201811#9,146
201714#7,836
201617#6,898
201515#7,610
201414#8,050
201318#6,725
201214#8,204
201111#9,719
201011#9,786
200910#10,675
20080–
20076#15,485
20067#13,601
20055#16,455

Nicknames for Arrabella

Names like Arrabella

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

Other spellings of Arrabella

Names related to Arrabella

More Scottish names

Every Scottish name

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, “Arrabella: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arrabella, updated 20 October 2026.