Arlin
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #2,765 for boys in 2025, 46 births
Given to boys 83.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1935 · 85 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,072since 1910
Arlin over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #2,765 | 46 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #2,418 | 57 |
| 2023 | #6,169 | 19 | #3,055 | 40 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,830 | 45 |
| 2021 | #8,024 | 13 | #3,121 | 38 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2019 | #6,698 | 17 | #4,003 | 26 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #4,226 | 24 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #4,746 | 20 |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #5,318 | 17 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #3,591 | 30 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | #7,372 | 16 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | #4,003 | 25 |
| 2011 | #7,783 | 15 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #6,904 | 18 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #7,066 | 18 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #6,559 | 20 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #3,730 | 39 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,969 | 20 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #3,241 | 43 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #6,844 | 13 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #3,107 | 23 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #4,521 | 22 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #5,955 | 15 | #5,002 | 11 |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #4,650 | 21 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #5,549 | 16 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #6,160 | 13 | #2,690 | 23 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 | #2,509 | 23 |
| 1987 | #7,987 | 8 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #5,757 | 12 | #2,891 | 17 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #3,216 | 14 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #2,408 | 20 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | — | #2,617 | 18 | |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | — | #2,473 | 18 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,556 | 17 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,826 | 14 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,361 | 18 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,050 | 21 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,216 | 18 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,928 | 22 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,052 | 20 | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #1,416 | 35 |
| 1969 | — | #1,642 | 25 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,282 | 35 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,609 | 23 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,428 | 29 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,271 | 36 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,371 | 33 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,195 | 42 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,242 | 39 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,406 | 32 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,131 | 48 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,172 | 44 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,114 | 47 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,130 | 46 | |
| 1956 | — | #986 | 57 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,084 | 48 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,382 | 30 | |
| 1953 | — | #878 | 67 | |
| 1952 | — | #994 | 52 | |
| 1951 | — | #919 | 58 | |
| 1950 | — | #948 | 53 | |
| 1949 | — | #967 | 51 | |
| 1948 | — | #933 | 55 | |
| 1947 | — | #822 | 71 | |
| 1946 | — | #935 | 51 | |
| 1945 | — | #860 | 53 | |
| 1944 | — | #964 | 45 | |
| 1943 | — | #787 | 69 | |
| 1942 | — | #888 | 55 | |
| 1941 | — | #778 | 64 | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | #729 | 70 |
| 1939 | — | #685 | 75 | |
| 1938 | — | #652 | 84 | |
| 1937 | — | #817 | 56 | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | #729 | 68 |
| 1935 | — | #641 | 85 | |
| 1934 | — | #673 | 81 | |
| 1933 | — | #642 | 81 | |
| 1932 | — | #746 | 70 | |
| 1931 | — | #794 | 62 | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | #873 | 57 |
| 1929 | — | #888 | 56 | |
| 1928 | — | #806 | 66 | |
| 1927 | — | #924 | 55 | |
| 1926 | — | #894 | 56 | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #1,121 | 39 |
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | #960 | 53 |
| 1923 | — | #976 | 50 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,023 | 48 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,199 | 36 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,139 | 39 | |
| 1919 | — | #1,122 | 38 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #1,079 | 40 |
| 1917 | — | #1,291 | 28 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,120 | 34 | |
| 1915 | — | #916 | 46 | |
| 1914 | — | #1,073 | 28 | |
| 1913 | — | #1,023 | 24 | |
| 1912 | — | #1,885 | 8 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,537 | 6 | |
| 1910 | — | #1,118 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arlin! It came in at #1,118, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1910–1912, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
See more about Arlin
- 347 spots since 2024 (#2,418 → #2,765)
- 260 spots since 2020 (#3,025 → #2,765)
- 826 spots since 2015 (#3,591 → #2,765)
- Biggest jump: 227 spots in 1926 (#1,121 → #894)
- Biggest drop: 504 spots in 1954 (#878 → #1,382)
- Debuted 1910
- Peaked 1935 at #641 (85 births)
- Births halved by 1954, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 32 yrs · run 1926–1953
- Highest: 1 in 12,241 boys born in 1933 were named Arlin (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 37,132 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #641 in 1935, was only 1 in 12,251 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.7% of all boys named Arlin (719) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2009, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 261 | #916 (1915) | #1,216 |
| 1920s | 498 | #806 (1928) | #993 |
| 1930s | 719 | #641 (1935) | #725 |
| 1940s | 584 | #729 (1940) | #866 |
| 1950s | 502 | #878 (1953) | #1,061 |
| 1960s | 342 | #1,131 (1960) | #1,358 |
| 1970s | 200 | #1,416 (1970) | #2,255 |
| 1980s | 155 | #2,408 (1983) | #3,260 |
| 1990s | 142 | #3,107 (1996) | #4,551 |
| 2000s | 180 | #3,228 (2001) | #4,768 |
| 2010s | 225 | #3,591 (2015) | #4,421 |
| 2020s | 264 | #2,418 (2024) | #2,869 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Arlin in 1924
Top girls' names in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
girls
1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 178,410 of them was named Arlin, which outranked 32.2% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,665Yvonna8
- #3,665Zenna8
- #3,665Zoila8
- #4,002Arlin7
- #4,002Abelina7
- #4,002Adabelle7
- #4,002Adamae7
- #4,434Abba6
- #4,434Adelita6
- #4,434Adine6
Tied with 431 names at #4,002; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 21,372 of them was named Arlin, which outranked 80.7% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).