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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Arel

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#5,625

up +868 places

2025 births

16

up +3 births

All-time births

306

5% of them in 2025

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2025
16 births
Best rank
#3,549
in 1937
First recorded
1916
#3,928 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2004
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
35 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 202516#5,625Peak
  2. 201615#5,811
  3. 202215#5,897
  4. 200914#6,113
  5. 201114#5,969

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,549 in 1937 · peak births 16 in 2025

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 98% boys■ 2% girls

306 boys · 6 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Arel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.