Arleen

Where Arleen comes from

The dictionaries list Arleen as a given name — a female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,700 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1939
    Peak, #303
    415 babies named Arleen — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #557.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene.
Namesakes

No widely known Arleen turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.