Meaning not yet researched.
Arley: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 92 in 2025. Its best rank was #646 in 1885.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #646 in 1885; #1,755 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Arley in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,755 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1885, at #646.
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Arley: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 92 boys in 2025. Peak: #646 in 1885 · most boys in one year: 92 (2025).
In 2025, 92 US boys were named Arley, making it the 1,755th most common boys’ name of the year, up 303 places from #2,058 in 2024. That is 19 more than the 73 boys named Arley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #646, reached in 1885. The most boys given the name in a single year was 92, in 2025. For comparison, it was #2,213 in 2015 and #1,466 in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Arley, making it the 4,183rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 121 places from #4,304 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 33 girls named Arley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #935, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 36, in 2021. For comparison, it was #4,418 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arley in 138 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1884 with 6 babies. In all, 4,546 US babies have been given the name, 20% of them girls and 80% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 875 babies named Arley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 690 US boys were named Arley; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,566 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arley ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #561 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Arlie (9,297 babies since 1880) and Arly (895 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 Arley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 12 | #561 | — |
| California | 23 | #959 | #847 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,419 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,488 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,183 | 92 | #1,755 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,304 | 73 | #2,058 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,374 | 83 | #1,896 |
| 2022 | 35 | #4,122 | 68 | #2,150 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,028 | 56 | #2,413 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,091 | 68 | #2,070 |
| 2019 | 31 | #4,448 | 88 | #1,763 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,245 | 64 | #2,172 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,153 | 47 | #2,637 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,816 | 51 | #2,480 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,418 | 61 | #2,213 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,488 | 63 | #2,155 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,914 | 46 | #2,597 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,905 | 90 | #1,687 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,818 | 56 | #2,287 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,409 | 37 | #3,079 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,720 | 21 | #4,591 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,579 | 20 | #4,724 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,583 | 11 | #7,133 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,985 | 12 | #6,488 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,215 | 16 | #5,052 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,309 | 10 | #7,010 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,575 | 10 | #6,765 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,875 | 19 | #4,194 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #6,969 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,841 | 11 | #5,950 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,567 | 12 | #5,338 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,598 | 9 | #6,359 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,091 | 8 | #6,652 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,681 | 10 | #5,555 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,616 | 14 | #4,299 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,661 | 24 | #2,953 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,938 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,469 | 19 | #3,343 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,326 | 15 | #3,826 |
| 1990 | — | — | 27 | #2,493 |
| 1989 | — | — | 29 | #2,296 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,745 | 22 | #2,607 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,048 | 11 | #3,985 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,596 | 11 | #3,895 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,402 | 8 | #4,727 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,750 | 11 | #3,720 |
| 1983 | 30 | #2,858 | 13 | #3,240 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,184 | 11 | #3,703 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,532 | 10 | #3,875 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,524 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,579 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,105 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,403 |
| 1976 | — | — | 11 | #3,276 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,444 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,139 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,082 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #3,987 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,159 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,538 |
| 1969 | — | — | 12 | #2,558 |
| 1968 | — | — | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1967 | — | — | 12 | #2,358 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,220 |
| 1965 | — | — | 17 | #1,919 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,673 |
| 1963 | — | — | 16 | #2,045 |
| 1962 | — | — | 14 | #2,193 |
| 1961 | — | — | 18 | #1,954 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,122 |
| 1959 | — | — | 19 | #1,867 |
| 1958 | — | — | 21 | #1,727 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,954 |
| 1956 | — | — | 26 | #1,532 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,684 |
| 1954 | — | — | 21 | #1,668 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,193 |
| 1952 | — | — | 21 | #1,666 |
| 1951 | — | — | 33 | #1,279 |
| 1950 | — | — | 25 | #1,466 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,706 |
| 1948 | — | — | 31 | #1,296 |
| 1947 | — | — | 29 | #1,364 |
| 1946 | — | — | 38 | #1,127 |
| 1945 | — | — | 30 | #1,206 |
| 1944 | — | — | 37 | #1,085 |
| 1943 | — | — | 32 | #1,217 |
| 1942 | — | — | 39 | #1,093 |
| 1941 | — | — | 28 | #1,254 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,068 |
| 1939 | — | — | 29 | #1,221 |
| 1938 | — | — | 28 | #1,249 |
| 1937 | — | — | 48 | #897 |
| 1936 | — | — | 44 | #925 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,247 | 37 | #1,058 |
| 1934 | — | — | 43 | #970 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,123 | 42 | #981 |
| 1932 | — | — | 46 | #965 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,882 | 37 | #1,112 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,365 | 37 | #1,153 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,931 | 53 | #923 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,451 | 46 | #1,020 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,848 | 57 | #898 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,336 | 60 | #856 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,463 | 50 | #957 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,675 | 40 | #1,136 |
| 1923 | — | — | 59 | #882 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,969 | 63 | #864 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,493 | 48 | #1,013 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,633 | 44 | #1,047 |
| 1919 | — | — | 42 | #1,048 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,901 | 47 | #975 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,743 | 46 | #946 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,467 | 42 | #984 |
| 1915 | — | — | 54 | #832 |
| 1914 | — | — | 30 | #1,021 |
| 1913 | — | — | 22 | #1,076 |
| 1912 | — | — | 21 | #1,001 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,214 | 7 | #1,395 |
| 1910 | — | — | 7 | #1,321 |
| 1908 | — | — | 12 | #781 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,202 |
| 1906 | — | — | 7 | #1,010 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #925 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #814 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,810 | 9 | #785 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,151 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #952 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #974 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,620 | 7 | #861 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,127 |
| 1897 | — | — | 10 | #685 |
| 1896 | — | — | 9 | #779 |
| 1895 | — | — | 7 | #877 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #790 |
| 1893 | — | — | 7 | #840 |
| 1892 | — | — | 9 | #752 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,346 | 6 | #891 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #825 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #974 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #646 |
| 1884 | 6 | #935 | — | — |
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).