Araceli is a Spanish name taken from the Latin ara coeli and means "altar of heaven" or "altar of the sky". It honors the Virgin Mary under the title Nuestra Señora de Aracoeli, venerated in a famous church on the Capitoline Hill in Rome and in the Andalusian town of Lucena. In the United States Araceli ranked number 599 in 2000 and peaked at number 487 in 2002; it then slipped out of the top 1000 but has been back since 2020 and stands at number 746 in 2025.