Arlow
#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 79.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1920 · 12 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 366since 1914
Arlow 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #3,128 | 38 |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | #3,272 | 36 |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,962 | 42 |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | #4,936 | 19 |
| 2020 | #7,559 | 14 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2018 | — | #4,354 | 23 | |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | — | |
| 2014 | — | #10,717 | 6 | |
| 2013 | — | #10,728 | 6 | |
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| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1936 | — | #2,854 | 7 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
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| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,459 | 12 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #4,179 | 5 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arlow! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Arlow
- 144 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,128)
- 2,323 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #3,128)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1920 at #2,459 (12 births)
- Births halved by 1921, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 41,572 boys born in 2022 were named Arlow (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,459 in 1920, was only 1 in 88,696 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 49.7% of all boys named Arlow (182) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | #2,915 (1914) | #3,512 |
| 1920s | 47 | #2,459 (1920) | #3,720 |
| 1930s | 23 | #2,854 (1936) | #3,474 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,560 (1942) | #3,560 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 85 | #4,354 (2018) | #7,014 |
| 2020s | 182 | #2,962 (2022) | #3,896 |
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.
Arlow in 1920
Top boys' names in 1920
More about 1920
boys
1,064,356 boys got a published name in 1920; 1 in 88,696 of them was named Arlow, which outranked 50.7% of the 4,989 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,336Zebedee13
- #2,336Zenon13
- #2,336Zygmund13
- #2,459Arlow12
- #2,459Able12
- #2,459Aden12
- #2,459Ambrosio12
- #2,602Abbie11
- #2,602Addis11
- #2,602Adrin11
Tied with 142 names at #2,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.