Highest ever

Arleth

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#269
1,156 girls
2015
#1,796
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Arleth: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,156 in 2025. Its best rank was #269 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99% of babies named Arleth in 2025 were girls.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#269 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
1,162
Since 1880
6,851
Years on record
34

Babies named Arleth, every year since 1880

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Girls

Arleth: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,156 girls in 2025. Peak: #269 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,156 (2025).

About the name Arleth

In 2025, 1,156 US girls were named Arleth, making it the 269th most common girls’ name of the year, up 159 places from #428 in 2024. That is 437 more than the 719 girls named Arleth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #269, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,156. For comparison, it was #1,796 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Arleth in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 6 babies. In all, 6,851 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,341 babies named Arleth.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,260 US girls were named Arleth; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,390 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Arleth ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #120 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), Arlet (3,351 babies since 1880) and Arlett (1,410 babies since 1880).

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Arleth in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Arleth by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 13 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
District of Columbia6#120—
Texas233#135#724
New Jersey56#138—
New York107#148—
Maryland31#159—
Connecticut17#193—
North Carolina55#195—
Nebraska11#207—
Georgia48#219—
Colorado28#225—
California149#226#1,257
Virginia32#256—
New Mexico6#258—
Kansas12#262—
Arizona25#284#580
Massachusetts20#287—
Illinois36#296—
South Carolina17#297—
Tennessee26#297—
Arkansas10#307—
Louisiana13#346—
Iowa9#357—
Indiana18#377—
Oklahoma11#378—
Nevada7#379—
Washington18#393—
Florida46#405—
Idaho5#412—
Pennsylvania23#455—
Minnesota10#507—
Alabama9#531—
Oregon6#561—
Utah6#615—
Wisconsin7#627—
Michigan11#696—
Missouri7#736—
Kentucky5#759—
Ohio8#1,042—

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
20251,156#2696#10,800
2024719#428——
2023536#5595#12,395
2022462#638——
2021270#962——
2020187#1,225——
2019218#1,117——
2018237#1,071——
2017219#1,131——
2016256#1,034——
2015116#1,796——
2014103#1,942——
201397#2,004——
2012103#1,919——
2011133#1,619——
2010144#1,547——
2009209#1,199——
2008124#1,776——
2007155#1,490——
2006229#1,097——
2005314#820——
2004162#1,315——
2003139#1,424——
2002158#1,252——
2001115#1,600——
2000104#1,690——
199964#2,312——
199825#4,381——
199746#2,700——
199618#5,307——
19955#13,609——
19946#11,912——
19935#13,632——
19916#11,631——

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).