Meaning not yet researched.
Arlette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 600 in 2025. Its best rank was #494 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Arlette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#494 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Arlette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 600 girls in 2025. Peak: #494 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 600 (2025).
In 2025, 600 US girls were named Arlette, making it the 494th most common girls’ name of the year, up 90 places from #584 in 2024. That is 83 more than the 517 girls named Arlette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #494, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 600. For comparison, it was #1,670 in 2015 and #1,727 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arlette in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 7 babies. In all, 8,109 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,349 babies named Arlette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,410 US girls were named Arlette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 600. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,679 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arlette ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #235 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Arleth (6,851 babies since 1880), Arlet (3,351 babies since 1880) and Arlett (1,410 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arleta, Arlethe and Arleht 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arleta (1,030), Arlethe (23), Arleht (11), Arletth (6), Arlete (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 Arlette 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 150 | #235 | #692 |
| California | 132 | #251 | #1,059 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #259 | — |
| Utah | 13 | #334 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #339 | — |
| Arizona | 20 | #345 | #1,116 |
| New Jersey | 23 | #350 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #396 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #443 | — |
| Colorado | 12 | #460 | — |
| New York | 34 | #497 | — |
| Kansas | 6 | #504 | — |
| Illinois | 19 | #519 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #562 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #568 | — |
| Washington | 11 | #593 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #628 | — |
| North Carolina | 16 | #636 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #668 | — |
| Florida | 25 | #678 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #766 | — |
| Tennessee | 7 | #901 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #929 | #962 |
| Georgia | 9 | #997 | #1,527 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,024 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,476 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 600 | #494 | — | — |
| 2024 | 517 | #584 | — | — |
| 2023 | 383 | #735 | — | — |
| 2022 | 352 | #800 | — | — |
| 2021 | 259 | #993 | — | — |
| 2020 | 238 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 2019 | 272 | #965 | — | — |
| 2018 | 301 | #895 | — | — |
| 2017 | 234 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 2016 | 254 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 2015 | 128 | #1,670 | — | — |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2013 | 144 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2011 | 142 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2009 | 108 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2007 | 140 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 2005 | 151 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 2004 | 189 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2003 | 179 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 2002 | 171 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 2001 | 122 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 2000 | 78 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,474 | — | — |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1997 | 54 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1994 | 43 | #2,800 | — | — |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,375 | — | — |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,900 | — | — |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,673 | — | — |
| 1986 | 27 | #3,280 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,293 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,004 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,959 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,867 | — | — |
| 1980 | 25 | #3,325 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,785 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,478 | — | — |
| 1973 | 15 | #3,987 | — | — |
| 1972 | 25 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,355 | — | — |
| 1968 | 37 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1967 | 22 | #2,638 | — | — |
| 1966 | 38 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1963 | 42 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1962 | 53 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1961 | 67 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1960 | 38 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,420 | — | — |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,567 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,666 | — | — |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,360 | — | — |
| 1947 | 39 | #1,510 | — | — |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1945 | 20 | #1,878 | — | — |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,208 | — | — |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,838 | — | — |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1941 | 24 | #1,613 | — | — |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,407 | — | — |
| 1939 | 30 | #1,350 | — | — |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,325 | — | — |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,381 | — | — |
| 1935 | 29 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,169 | — | — |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1929 | 16 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,593 | — | — |
| 1927 | 51 | #1,071 | — | — |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,836 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,027 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,676 | — | — |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,257 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,707 | — | — |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,842 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,558 | — | — |
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).