Meaning not yet researched.
Arly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #950 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #950 in 2003; #7,176 in 2025. About 65% of babies named Arly in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,176 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #950.
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Arly: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #950 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 246 (2003).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Arly, making it the 7,176th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,052 places from #11,228 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 8 girls named Arly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #950, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 246. For comparison, it was #10,994 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Arly, making it the 8,978th most common boys’ name of the year, up 3,520 places from #12,498 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 5 boys named Arly in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,235, reached in 1925. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 2007. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arly in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 895 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 546 babies named Arly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 96 US girls were named Arly; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arlie (9,297 babies since 1880), Arley (4,546 babies since 1880), Arlyn (4,525 babies since 1880) and Aly (2,197 babies since 1880).
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 Brazilian Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Arly in the open dataset we use.
Arly is listed as a nickname for Arlene.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,176 | 8 | #8,978 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,228 | 5 | #12,498 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,691 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,086 | 5 | #12,501 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,644 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,261 | — | — |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,015 | 6 | #10,907 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,675 | — | — |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,054 | 5 | #12,339 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,994 | — | — |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,831 | 5 | #12,249 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,687 | 6 | #10,837 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,178 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,513 | 6 | #10,911 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,866 | 7 | #9,763 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,780 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,159 | — | — |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,584 | 10 | #7,634 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,522 | — | — |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,292 | — | — |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2003 | 246 | #950 | 7 | #8,721 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,435 | — | — |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,531 | — | — |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,529 | — | — |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,662 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,611 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,403 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,751 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,622 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,235 |
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).