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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
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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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 115,728 of them was named Arlow, which outranked 57.2% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,251Zurmani15
- #7,251Zuzu15
- #7,251Zyalani15
- #7,594Arlow14
- #7,594Aadhini14
- #7,594Aanika14
- #7,594Aaralynn14
- #7,967Aadhyareddy13
- #7,967Aarza13
- #7,967Abriana13
Tied with 372 names at #7,594; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 47,858 of them was named Arlow, which outranked 77.1% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,216Wave37
- #3,216Wellington37
- #3,216Ziyon37
- #3,272Arlow36
- #3,272Adi36
- #3,272Aldair36
- #3,272Arik36
- #3,335Aleister35
- #3,335Armen35
- #3,335Bartholomew35
Tied with 62 names at #3,272; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.