Has anyone ever encounted the name Araely before? That is the correct spelling. It’s a boy’s name? It doesn’t show up in any book on Spanish names that I’ve encountered and I’m wondering if it is just something made up by the boy’s parents (he’s 5) or perhaps something borrowed from one of Guatemala’s indigineous peoples.
It looks like somebody named Araely Lopez was on the Guatemalan World Cup team in 1998. That’s the only Araely I really know.
Thanks, that’s the only other person with the name we’ve encountered.
Techincally, it wasn’t the 1998 World Cup team since Guatemala didn’t qualify that year. I’m leaning to the “coined name” theory.
It can’t possibly be a traditional Spanish name, just from the spelling. I think non-traditional names are fairly common in Latin America nowadays, though. The original origin of the name, I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
Hello, I read your post and Araely Lopez is my dad. He did play in the Guatemalan soccer team. We moved from Guatemala a long time ago, but we live in Rhode Island now. He has a hi5, I’m not sure if his name is a traditional spanish name
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I would have guessed Araely to be a girl’s name and definitely not a traditional name. It does have a very natural ring to it as girl names ending in -ely (or -eli or elly or elis or ellys) are very common all though Latin America.
Alas, it is on a boy so it goes to show.
There is Araceli, which is, surprise surprise being a Hispanic name, after an image of Our Lady, and used both for boys and girls (I’ve only met girls, but in the area where the image is, you find males as well). Araely might be a derivative of that one.