Arlena

Where Arlena comes from

The dictionaries list Arlena as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1883
    Debut at its peak, #817
    #817 among girls with 6 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1884
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene.
Namesakes

No widely known Arlena turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.