In 2025, 9 US girls were named Arletta, making it the 10,197th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,101 places from #12,298 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 girls named Arletta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #915, reached in 1933. The most girls given the name in a single year was 58, in 1930. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,654 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arletta in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1883 with 5 babies. In all, 2,395 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1930s, with 474 babies named Arletta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 36 US girls were named Arletta; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Arletha, Arlita and Arleatha are summarised on this page.