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How popular is the name Arabella?

Births per year, rank history and how many Arabellas are alive today.

Arabella (female) is currently the 30th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,222 babies given the name in 2024. It has risen strongly over the past decade. At least 11,000 babies have been named Arabella in England and Wales since 1996. Common short forms of Arabella include Bella and Belle.

The Arabella you are most likely to meet is around 3 years old. Half of all Arabellas born in England and Wales are between 4 and 12, and there are at least 11,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 3.4% chance that at least one of them will be called Arabella.

How many babies are named Arabella each year?

Where does Arabella rank among girls' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.