Arlee

#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #10,863
Given to girls 74.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1908 · 9 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,267
since 1907

Arlee over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201908peak #1,439, 1908peak #1,949, 1946girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,17234
2024#3,75840
2023#3,32948
2022#3,70341#10,8636
2021#4,50730#12,1465
2020#4,26332
2019#3,45145
2018#5,31524
2017#4,92227#12,2465
2016#4,85028
2015#4,98127#10,6446
2014#6,98717
2013#6,72918
2012#5,89522
2011#8,19614#12,2875
2010#9,23112
2009#9,97511
2008#12,5798
2007#8,09815
2006#11,4179
2005#13,0107
2004#9,26411
2003#8,50512
2002#8,83711
2001#8,75811#10,5565
2000#15,0315
1999#12,6886
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1996#7,57411
1995
1994#13,4305
1993#9,5598
1992
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1990#9,2478
1989
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1986#9,5456
1985#7,5638
1984#10,4225#6,3155
1983#4,10918
1982#4,52716
1981#7,4098
1980
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1976#5,5875
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1972#4,9865
1971
1970#6,3627#4,2306
1969
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1965#5,8176
1964
1963#6,5925
1962#6,5785#3,6406
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1959#3,0378
1958#3,74711
1957#5,3776
1956#5,3256#3,9425
1955#3,8865
1954#4,6557#3,1767
1953#2,9058
1952#4,9086#3,7345
1951#4,8336
1950#2,5809
1949#3,6129#3,6905
1948#3,35010#3,3166
1947#3,7069#3,0967
1946#1,94914
1945#4,0256#3,3385
1944#2,8627
1943#3,4938#2,5639
1942#2,98610#2,14512
1941#3,9546#2,4919
1940#2,9639#2,4789
1939#2,73610#2,8297
1938#2,02116#3,5345
1937#2,73510#2,6808
1936#2,26313#2,30110
1935#3,7426#3,2526
1934#2,9239#2,39310
1933#2,68810#2,7388
1932#2,49012#2,8498
1931#2,42712#2,10113
1930#2,20215#2,17813
1929#2,30114#2,7669
1928#1,83721#2,52211
1927#2,02619#2,29813
1926#1,88321#3,3857
1925#2,28316#2,19314
1924#2,51414#2,22914
1923#1,78223#2,33113
1922#1,46431#2,80110
1921#1,76524#2,37613
1920#1,51129#3,2088
1919#1,92119#3,7366
1918#1,75422#2,69910
1917#2,55212#3,5456
1916#2,02816#2,38911
1915#1,57122#2,07013
1914#2,00912
1913#2,03410
1912#2,6346
1911#1,6569
1910
1909#1,4719
1908#1,4399
1907#1,8216
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five girls were named Arlee! It came in at #1,821, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1910, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Arlee
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 414 spots since 2024 (#3,758#4,172)
  • 91 spots since 2020 (#4,263#4,172)
  • 809 spots since 2015 (#4,981#4,172)
Rise & fade · girls
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 1908 at #1,439 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1910, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 33,429
  • Highest: 1 in 33,429 girls born in 2023 were named Arlee (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 47,273 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,439 in 1908, was only 1 in 37,146 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 18.5% of all girls named Arlee (234) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1981
  • Mostly boys until 1980, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s24#1,439 (1908)#1,577
1910s128#1,571 (1915)#2,018
1920s212#1,464 (1922)#1,937
1930s113#2,021 (1938)#2,623
1940s67#2,963 (1940)#3,511
1950s42#3,747 (1958)#4,808
1960s16#5,817 (1965)#6,329
1970s7#6,362 (1970)#6,362
1980s61#4,109 (1983)#7,263
1990s38#7,574 (1996)#10,500
2000s100#8,098 (2007)#10,547
2010s234#3,451 (2019)#6,056
2020s225#3,329 (2023)#3,955

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arlee in 1908

girls
#1,439
9 births · 1 in 37,146 girls

Top girls' names in 1908

  1. #1Mary18,665
  2. #2Helen8,439
  3. #3Margaret6,976
  4. #4Ruth6,180
  5. #5Anna5,860
  6. #6Dorothy5,703
  7. #7Elizabeth4,904
  8. #8Mildred4,624
  9. #9Alice4,270
  10. #10Marie4,076
  11. #1,439Arlee9
More about 1908

girls

334,312 girls got a published name in 1908; 1 in 37,146 of them was named Arlee, which outranked 40.9% of the 2,434 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arlee
  1. #1,357Virgia10
  2. #1,357Vivien10
  3. #1,357Zelia10
  4. #1,439Arlee9
  5. #1,439Adel9
  6. #1,439Alease9
  7. #1,439Aleene9
  8. #1,547Albert8
  9. #1,547Aldine8
  10. #1,547Allena8

Tied with 107 names at #1,439; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1907
Risers
  1. 1,122Bernetta#2,061#939
  2. 1,122Nila#2,061#939
  3. 909Arnetta#1,821#912
  4. 703Edra#1,512#809
  5. 703Hertha#1,512#809
Fallers
  1. 1,261Aurore#840#2,101
  2. 1,178Tula#923#2,101
  3. 1,111Oneida#990#2,101
  4. 1,043Walter#819#1,862
  5. 1,022Gayle#840#1,862

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1908