girl's name

Arella

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 586

Scotland

#914

2024 births

Arella is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2024, when 32 babies were given the name.
  • Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 255,037 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1918.

Arella over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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'10 '80 '90 '00 '10 '20
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Births named Arella by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1910s 5
1980s 5
1990s 23
2000s 148
2010s 186
2020s (to 2025) 119

How popular is Arella?

In 2025, Arella was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Arella is used

Scotland #914 3 in 2024
England & Wales #3,207 8 in 2025
Canada #3,794 5 in 2024
United States #8,118 13 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Arella

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Arella also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Arella over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Arella

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Arella — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Arella

How popular is the name Arella?

In 2025, Arella was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

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

Arella is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Arella most popular?

Arella peaked in 2024, when 32 babies were given the name. Its usage has held steady over the past decade.

Is Arella a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Arella currently ranks #914 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.