Arley

Where Arley comes from

Arley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    Debut at its peak, #641
    #641 among boys with 9 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1888
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1974
    Arley Dinas born
    Colombian association football player
  4. 1986
    Arley de Queroz Sandim born
    Brazilian association football player
  5. 2008
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arley Dinas · Colombian association football player, born 1974
  • Arley de Queroz Sandim · Brazilian association football player, born 1986
  • Arley Méndez · Chilean world champion weightlifter, born 1993
  • Arley Rodríguez · Colombian association football player, born 1993
  • Arley Betancourth · Colombian association football player, born 1975

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.