Meaning not yet researched.
Arlo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,443 in 2025. Its best rank was #146 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #146 in 2024; #148 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Arlo in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#148 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #146.
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Arlo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,443 boys in 2025. Peak: #146 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 2,490 (2024).
In 2025, 2,443 US boys were named Arlo, making it the 148th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2 places from #146 in 2024. That is 47 fewer than the 2,490 boys named Arlo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #146, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,490. For comparison, it was #501 in 2015 and #1,220 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arlo in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 25,135 US babies have been given the name, 3.5% of them girls and 96% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 13,686 babies named Arlo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,811 US boys were named Arlo; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 2,490. In 2025 that was about 1 in 699 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arlo ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #39 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 15 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Arloa, Arloh and Arloe are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arloa (300), Arloh (15), Arloe (5), Arllo (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 Arlo 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 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 10 | #39 | — |
| Vermont | 9 | #48 | — |
| Minnesota | 86 | #65 | #315 |
| North Dakota | 16 | #65 | — |
| Colorado | 89 | #66 | #299 |
| Iowa | 46 | #69 | #507 |
| Nebraska | 33 | #69 | #352 |
| Oregon | 50 | #72 | #241 |
| Wisconsin | 75 | #73 | #221 |
| Maine | 16 | #75 | — |
| Idaho | 28 | #81 | — |
| Alaska | 9 | #85 | — |
| Montana | 13 | #92 | #241 |
| Washington | 81 | #94 | #242 |
| Rhode Island | 11 | #99 | — |
| New Mexico | 18 | #106 | — |
| New Hampshire | 14 | #106 | — |
| Utah | 48 | #109 | #687 |
| Michigan | 86 | #114 | #404 |
| Arizona | 70 | #123 | #627 |
| Missouri | 56 | #126 | #424 |
| Pennsylvania | 95 | #134 | #489 |
| West Virginia | 14 | #140 | — |
| Kansas | 26 | #142 | #392 |
| Indiana | 57 | #142 | #422 |
| Ohio | 96 | #142 | #403 |
| Maryland | 41 | #145 | #641 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #147 | — |
| Connecticut | 25 | #147 | #454 |
| Hawaii | 7 | #148 | — |
| Tennessee | 64 | #150 | #556 |
| California | 258 | #150 | #468 |
| Arkansas | 23 | #159 | — |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #162 | #518 |
| Nevada | 19 | #162 | — |
| Virginia | 54 | #167 | #623 |
| Massachusetts | 40 | #167 | #324 |
| Illinois | 70 | #168 | #524 |
| New York | 99 | #198 | #573 |
| Texas | 195 | #200 | #708 |
| North Carolina | 61 | #204 | #470 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #213 | #496 |
| Louisiana | 23 | #221 | — |
| Alabama | 25 | #224 | — |
| South Carolina | 25 | #224 | — |
| Florida | 95 | #225 | #565 |
| Georgia | 51 | #241 | #1,222 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #280 | #782 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #314 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,488 | 2,443 | #148 |
| 2024 | 84 | #2,235 | 2,490 | #146 |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,986 | 2,307 | #158 |
| 2022 | 95 | #2,036 | 2,220 | #169 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,993 | 1,990 | #190 |
| 2020 | 89 | #2,066 | 1,701 | #220 |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,381 | 1,323 | #271 |
| 2018 | 68 | #2,566 | 1,268 | #277 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,780 | 1,092 | #316 |
| 2016 | 56 | #2,974 | 977 | #349 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,419 | 579 | #501 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,232 | 518 | #537 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,181 | 354 | #681 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,379 | 274 | #811 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,680 | 220 | #915 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,180 | 184 | #1,048 |
| 2009 | — | — | 157 | #1,156 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,839 | 101 | #1,572 |
| 2007 | — | — | 95 | #1,623 |
| 2006 | — | — | 73 | #1,857 |
| 2005 | — | — | 64 | #1,968 |
| 2004 | — | — | 58 | #2,051 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,735 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,430 |
| 2001 | — | — | 33 | #2,806 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,530 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,110 |
| 1998 | — | — | 30 | #2,714 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,073 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,300 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,309 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,602 |
| 1993 | — | — | 19 | #3,373 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,342 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,112 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,436 |
| 1989 | — | — | 26 | #2,476 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,373 |
| 1987 | — | — | 25 | #2,276 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,012 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,362 |
| 1984 | — | — | 18 | #2,616 |
| 1983 | — | — | 28 | #1,907 |
| 1982 | — | — | 18 | #2,600 |
| 1981 | — | — | 28 | #1,948 |
| 1980 | — | — | 35 | #1,659 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,580 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,540 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,451 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,505 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,431 |
| 1974 | — | — | 29 | #1,661 |
| 1973 | — | — | 49 | #1,176 |
| 1972 | — | — | 46 | #1,211 |
| 1971 | — | — | 50 | #1,158 |
| 1970 | — | — | 33 | #1,464 |
| 1969 | — | — | 17 | #2,049 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,385 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,003 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,222 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,790 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,315 |
| 1963 | — | — | 12 | #2,423 |
| 1962 | — | — | 22 | #1,713 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,149 |
| 1960 | — | — | 18 | #1,912 |
| 1959 | — | — | 25 | #1,590 |
| 1958 | — | — | 28 | #1,484 |
| 1957 | — | — | 30 | #1,436 |
| 1956 | — | — | 21 | #1,724 |
| 1955 | — | — | 22 | #1,649 |
| 1954 | — | — | 29 | #1,410 |
| 1953 | — | — | 21 | #1,677 |
| 1952 | — | — | 34 | #1,268 |
| 1951 | — | — | 37 | #1,196 |
| 1950 | — | — | 35 | #1,220 |
| 1949 | — | — | 25 | #1,463 |
| 1948 | — | — | 43 | #1,080 |
| 1947 | — | — | 34 | #1,255 |
| 1946 | — | — | 30 | #1,279 |
| 1945 | — | — | 36 | #1,081 |
| 1944 | — | — | 43 | #991 |
| 1943 | — | — | 49 | #956 |
| 1942 | — | — | 45 | #991 |
| 1941 | — | — | 68 | #751 |
| 1940 | — | — | 49 | #904 |
| 1939 | — | — | 61 | #776 |
| 1938 | — | — | 70 | #730 |
| 1937 | — | — | 66 | #751 |
| 1936 | — | — | 64 | #756 |
| 1935 | — | — | 74 | #702 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,322 | 66 | #751 |
| 1933 | — | — | 74 | #695 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,589 | 77 | #703 |
| 1931 | — | — | 75 | #697 |
| 1930 | — | — | 61 | #832 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,605 | 83 | #676 |
| 1928 | — | — | 78 | #722 |
| 1927 | — | — | 65 | #828 |
| 1926 | — | — | 63 | #831 |
| 1925 | — | — | 68 | #802 |
| 1924 | — | — | 67 | #823 |
| 1923 | — | — | 86 | #698 |
| 1922 | — | — | 76 | #759 |
| 1921 | — | — | 58 | #920 |
| 1920 | — | — | 82 | #718 |
| 1919 | — | — | 66 | #799 |
| 1918 | — | — | 81 | #700 |
| 1917 | — | — | 69 | #750 |
| 1916 | — | — | 66 | #750 |
| 1915 | — | — | 76 | #667 |
| 1914 | — | — | 45 | #789 |
| 1913 | — | — | 30 | #899 |
| 1912 | — | — | 26 | #877 |
| 1911 | — | — | 5 | #1,756 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #865 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,085 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,224 |
| 1907 | — | — | 7 | #1,100 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,243 |
| 1900 | — | — | 9 | #906 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,058 |
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).