Meaning not yet researched.
Arleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #303 in 1939.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #303 in 1939; #6,145 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,145 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1939, at #303.
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Arleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #303 in 1939 · most girls in one year: 415 (1939).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Arleen, making it the 6,145th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,366 places from #4,779 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 28 girls named Arleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #303, reached in 1939. That year also had the most girls given the name: 415. For comparison, it was #2,966 in 2015 and #557 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arleen in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 12,617 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 2,566 babies named Arleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 396 US girls were named Arleen; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arlene (143,371 babies since 1880), Arlen (8,154 babies since 1880), Arlin (4,884 babies since 1880) and Arlyn (4,525 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Arleen 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 | 19 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,779 | — | — |
| 2023 | 34 | #4,198 | — | — |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,425 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,662 | — | — |
| 2018 | 61 | #2,785 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,310 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,966 | — | — |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,579 | — | — |
| 2012 | 56 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,941 | — | — |
| 2009 | 49 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 2007 | 53 | #3,218 | — | — |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,037 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 2002 | 48 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,013 | — | — |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,891 | — | — |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,556 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,109 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,590 | — | — |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,429 | — | — |
| 1986 | 39 | #2,514 | — | — |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,076 | — | — |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,857 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,962 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,720 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,005 | — | — |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,815 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1972 | 38 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1970 | 58 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1969 | 72 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1968 | 88 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 1967 | 107 | #984 | — | — |
| 1966 | 130 | #880 | — | — |
| 1965 | 190 | #718 | — | — |
| 1964 | 186 | #762 | — | — |
| 1963 | 220 | #678 | — | — |
| 1962 | 280 | #595 | — | — |
| 1961 | 286 | #594 | — | — |
| 1960 | 253 | #636 | — | — |
| 1959 | 239 | #647 | — | — |
| 1958 | 184 | #728 | — | — |
| 1957 | 224 | #658 | — | — |
| 1956 | 218 | #645 | — | — |
| 1955 | 232 | #607 | — | — |
| 1954 | 198 | #652 | — | — |
| 1953 | 236 | #573 | — | — |
| 1952 | 215 | #594 | — | — |
| 1951 | 214 | #586 | — | — |
| 1950 | 222 | #557 | — | — |
| 1949 | 133 | #743 | — | — |
| 1948 | 214 | #569 | — | — |
| 1947 | 301 | #474 | — | — |
| 1946 | 262 | #484 | — | — |
| 1945 | 174 | #557 | — | — |
| 1944 | 241 | #465 | — | — |
| 1943 | 353 | #388 | — | — |
| 1942 | 298 | #414 | 6 | #3,231 |
| 1941 | 316 | #386 | — | — |
| 1940 | 268 | #417 | — | — |
| 1939 | 415 | #303 | — | — |
| 1938 | 310 | #375 | — | — |
| 1937 | 98 | #688 | — | — |
| 1936 | 98 | #666 | — | — |
| 1935 | 93 | #693 | — | — |
| 1934 | 88 | #709 | — | — |
| 1933 | 88 | #694 | — | — |
| 1932 | 104 | #657 | — | — |
| 1931 | 99 | #667 | — | — |
| 1930 | 144 | #566 | — | — |
| 1929 | 143 | #572 | — | — |
| 1928 | 159 | #555 | — | — |
| 1927 | 191 | #507 | — | — |
| 1926 | 161 | #562 | — | — |
| 1925 | 185 | #520 | — | — |
| 1924 | 178 | #543 | — | — |
| 1923 | 176 | #539 | — | — |
| 1922 | 152 | #579 | — | — |
| 1921 | 131 | #646 | — | — |
| 1920 | 134 | #617 | — | — |
| 1919 | 94 | #721 | — | — |
| 1918 | 91 | #747 | — | — |
| 1917 | 76 | #792 | — | — |
| 1916 | 73 | #797 | — | — |
| 1915 | 70 | #787 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #878 | — | — |
| 1913 | 24 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 1912 | 26 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1911 | 24 | #879 | — | — |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,303 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,307 | — | — |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,908 | — | — |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,206 | — | — |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,815 | — | — |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,285 | — | — |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,718 | — | — |
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).