Meaning not yet researched.
Arla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #855 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #855 in 1934; #4,998 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,998 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #855.
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Arla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #855 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 64 (1934).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Arla, making it the 4,998th most common girls’ name of the year, up 173 places from #5,171 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 25 girls named Arla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #855, reached in 1934. That year also had the most girls given the name: 64. For comparison, it was #10,993 in 2015 and #1,375 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arla in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 2,806 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 553 babies named Arla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 203 US girls were named Arla; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Arlaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arlaya (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,998 | — | — |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,171 | — | — |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,988 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,808 | — | — |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,854 | — | — |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,395 | — | — |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,499 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,052 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,993 | — | — |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,790 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,844 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,173 | — | — |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,041 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,836 | — | — |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,767 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,028 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,524 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,953 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,444 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,027 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,994 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,168 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,519 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,838 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,104 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,421 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,234 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,658 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,879 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,859 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,376 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,130 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,957 | — | — |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,216 | — | — |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,788 | — | — |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,713 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,215 | — | — |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1961 | 16 | #3,198 | — | — |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,821 | — | — |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 1957 | 30 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 1956 | 36 | #1,761 | — | — |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,517 | — | — |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1949 | 37 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1948 | 56 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1946 | 48 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1944 | 32 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1942 | 43 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1941 | 62 | #936 | — | — |
| 1940 | 51 | #998 | — | — |
| 1939 | 53 | #975 | — | — |
| 1938 | 48 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1937 | 54 | #940 | — | — |
| 1936 | 56 | #909 | — | — |
| 1935 | 56 | #926 | — | — |
| 1934 | 64 | #855 | — | — |
| 1933 | 54 | #923 | — | — |
| 1932 | 56 | #941 | — | — |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1930 | 60 | #942 | 6 | #3,612 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1928 | 49 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1927 | 50 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1923 | 31 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1920 | 25 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,395 | 5 | #4,187 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1917 | 33 | #1,264 | — | — |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,334 | 6 | #3,535 |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,012 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,619 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,293 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).