Arabella
For 2025 the count puts Arabella at #213 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. The records carry it back to 1881, but its real era is now, 27,957 American children have carried it so far.
What Arabella carries
Arabella · Teutonic
“eagle heroine (?)”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Arabella’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Arabella, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Arabella since 1881
Arabella peaked in 2014 at #174; #213 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Arabella is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Arabella runs strongest in West Virginia at 0.35% in 2025, then Alaska and Maine.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Arabella
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Alejandro
#195 in 2025 · Teutonic
Adeline
#59 in 2025 · Teutonic
Aubrey
#146 in 2025 · Teutonic
Caroline
#96 in 2025 · Teutonic
Audrey
#86 in 2025 · Teutonic
Axel
#79 in 2025 · Teutonic
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Luis
#144 in 2025 · Teutonic
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About Arabella
How common is Arabella today?
For 2025 the count puts Arabella at #213 nationwide, as settled as a name gets. The full curve since 1881 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
Does Arabella have a meaning on record?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “eagle heroine (?)”, of Teutonic origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Arabella?
Nearest by the published recipe: Alejandro, Adeline and Aubrey. The sibling matcher scores every common American name against the ones you already have.
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