Entry № 825 · Other origin

Araceli Araceli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-rah-SEH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Altar of heaven (Spanish + Our Lady of Aracoeli)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "altar of heaven (spanish + our lady of aracoeli)".

Araceli is from the Spanish Araceli — from Latin Ara Coeli — compound of Latin ara (altar) + caeli (of heaven). Araceli is one of the Spanish feminine names — central to traditional Spanish Catholic + Latin American Marian heritage. Spanish feminine name reflecting Catholic Marian heritage.

Altar of heaven (Spanish).

The name in its native script.

Araceli
Transliteration
Araceli
Pronunciation
/ ɑːrəˈseɪ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Araceli stands.

Araceli does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Aracelis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Our Lady of Aracoeli / Santo Bambino
Marian title + Catholic devotion + Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli Rome built on Capitoline Hill + ~6th c. CE + Santo Bambino di Aracoeli olivewood Christ Child + Cavallini frescoes.
Catholic + Rome

Names connected to Araceli.

The number behind Araceli.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Araceli reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.