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

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Peak · boys
1920 · 12 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
366
since 1914

Arlow over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201920peak #2,459, 1920girlsat peakboys
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#10,1079#3,12838
2024#7,59414#3,27236
2023#3,62931
2022#6,70717#2,96242
2021#7,63014#4,93619
2020#7,55914#5,45116
2019#13,7996#5,55516
2018#4,35423
2017#9,94310#5,78815
2016#11,7818#4,94319
2015#16,4195
2014#10,7176
2013#10,7286
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1928#4,1515
1927#4,2105
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1925#3,4087
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1923#4,2395
1922#3,2528
1921#4,3225
1920#2,45912
1919#3,7366
1918#4,1795
1917#3,2177
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First appearance
1914

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
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 144 spots since 2024 (#3,272#3,128)
  • 2,323 spots since 2020 (#5,451#3,128)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1920 at #2,459 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1921, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 41,572
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 49.7% of all boys named Arlow (182) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2016
  • Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s24#2,915 (1914)#3,512
1920s47#2,459 (1920)#3,720
1930s23#2,854 (1936)#3,474
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s0
2010s85#4,354 (2018)#7,014
2020s182#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

boys
#2,459
12 births · 1 in 88,696 boys

Top boys' names in 1920

  1. #1John56,913
  2. #2William50,146
  3. #3Robert48,679
  4. #4James47,908
  5. #5Charles28,309
  6. #6George26,891
  7. #7Joseph25,587
  8. #8Edward20,097
  9. #9Frank16,430
  10. #10Richard15,010
  11. #2,459Arlow12
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).

Ranked beside Arlow
  1. #2,336Zebedee13
  2. #2,336Zenon13
  3. #2,336Zygmund13
  4. #2,459Arlow12
  5. #2,459Able12
  6. #2,459Aden12
  7. #2,459Ambrosio12
  8. #2,602Abbie11
  9. #2,602Addis11
  10. #2,602Adrin11

Tied with 142 names at #2,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1919
Risers
  1. 960Harding#1,351#391
  2. 607Cameron#1,351#744
  3. 566Hardin#1,531#965
  4. 392Laurel#1,321#929
  5. 368Terrence#1,297#929
Fallers
  1. 789Pershing#593#1,382
  2. 580Woodroe#877#1,457
  3. 385Quinten#867#1,252
  4. 383Orvel#890#1,273
  5. 373Rexford#927#1,300

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

See the top 100 for 1920