Meaning not yet researched.
Arlet: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 450 in 2025. Its best rank was #603 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #603 in 2023; #642 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arlet in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#642 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #603.
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Arlet: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 450 girls in 2025. Peak: #603 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 493 (2023).
In 2025, 450 US girls were named Arlet, making it the 642nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 72 places from #714 in 2024. That is 57 more than the 393 girls named Arlet in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #603, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 493. For comparison, it was #3,852 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arlet in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 6 babies. In all, 3,351 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,032 babies named Arlet.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,509 US girls were named Arlet; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 493. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,572 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arlet ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #405 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Arlette (8,109 babies since 1880), Arleth (6,851 babies since 1880) and Arlett (1,410 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Arlet in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 27 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 7 | #405 | — |
| Nebraska | 5 | #407 | — |
| Colorado | 14 | #408 | — |
| Texas | 74 | #450 | — |
| California | 73 | #459 | #2,053 |
| New Jersey | 16 | #475 | — |
| North Carolina | 21 | #513 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #526 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #545 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #584 | — |
| New York | 28 | #590 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #607 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #620 | — |
| Florida | 26 | #654 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #725 | — |
| Indiana | 8 | #729 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #743 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #744 | — |
| Illinois | 12 | #755 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #786 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #829 | — |
| Virginia | 8 | #853 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #888 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #992 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 450 | #642 | — | — |
| 2024 | 393 | #714 | — | — |
| 2023 | 493 | #603 | — | — |
| 2022 | 390 | #742 | — | — |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,229 | — | — |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,738 | — | — |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,852 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,724 | — | — |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,323 | — | — |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,279 | — | — |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,658 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,015 | — | — |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,899 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,575 | — | — |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,446 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,204 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,958 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,123 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,180 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,298 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,468 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,654 | — | — |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,548 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,757 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,847 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,635 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,453 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,530 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,501 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,871 | — | — |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,407 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,061 | 5 | #4,345 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,318 | — | — |
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).