girls:
6 births since 1991
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1916
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
283 births since 1916
#7456 (4th percentile)
The name Arel is the #7,456 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 283 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1991.
Arel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1991 for girls). Birth data for Arel is available in 34 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Arel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arel reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #911) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arel ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 68.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arel reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #849) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arel".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Arel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.0% confident that Arel is pronounced as ah-REHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ruhl, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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