Arleene

Last seen for girls in 2014 at #11,931

Peak · girls
1941 · 19 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
388
since 1916

Arleene over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Arleene has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201923peak #1,882, 1941girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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2014#11,9318
2013#11,9698
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2011#12,1538
2010#14,9596
2009#13,7047
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2007#13,9247
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2005#11,8348
2004#14,1796
2003#11,3258
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2001#8,75811
2000#10,7458
1999#14,4115
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1997#6,84413
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1992#13,3175
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1984#9,1446
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1962#6,5785
1961#5,8516
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1957#6,0865
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1951#5,4145
1950#5,3015
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1946#3,03411
1945#4,5565
1944#2,94610
1943#3,4938
1942#3,7387
1941#1,88219
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1939#2,59211
1938#2,22514
1937#3,4347
1936#3,7016
1935#3,7426
1934#3,4497
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1932#3,5687
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1929#3,3948
1928#3,1649
1927#3,05310
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1925#2,77812
1924#2,30816
1923#2,02119
1922#2,78012
1921#3,6668
1920#3,3409
1919#3,2199
1918#2,67412
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Arleene! It came in at #3,919, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Arleene is popular in 1923

No state had 5 or more girls named Arleene in 1923, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arleene
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2014
Rise & fade · girls
25 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1941 at #1,882 (19 births)
  • Births halved by 1942, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 63,493
  • Highest: 1 in 63,493 girls born in 1923 were named Arleene (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 223,294 girls born in 2014 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,882 in 1941, was only 1 in 63,585 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 26.5% of all girls named Arleene (103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s27#2,674 (1918)#3,271
1920s103#2,021 (1923)#2,945
1930s58#2,225 (1938)#3,244
1940s60#1,882 (1941)#3,275
1950s15#5,301 (1950)#5,600
1960s11#5,851 (1961)#6,215
1970s0——
1980s6#9,144 (1984)#9,144
1990s23#6,844 (1997)#11,524
2000s55#8,758 (2001)#12,067
2010s30#11,931 (2014)#12,753

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arleene in 1923

girls
#2,021
19 births · 1 in 63,493 girls

Top girls' names in 1923

  1. #1Mary71,634
  2. #2Dorothy39,043
  3. #3Helen31,486
  4. #4Margaret26,134
  5. #5Betty25,989
  6. #6Ruth23,637
  7. #7Virginia18,325
  8. #8Mildred15,989
  9. #9Elizabeth15,459
  10. #10Frances14,881
  11. #2,021Arleene19
More about 1923

girls

1,206,366 girls got a published name in 1923; 1 in 63,493 of them was named Arleene, which outranked 64.8% of the 5,739 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arleene
  1. #1,944Verlene20
  2. #1,944Vicie20
  3. #1,944Zeta20
  4. #2,021Arleene19
  5. #2,021Albena19
  6. #2,021Almena19
  7. #2,021Ardeth19
  8. #2,091Altie18
  9. #2,091Angel18
  10. #2,091Berdine18

Tied with 69 names at #2,021; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1922
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,834Eris#2,291 → #457
  2. ↑ 619Penny#1,508 → #889
  3. ↑ 317Laurene#1,309 → #992
  4. ↑ 310Cruz#1,103 → #793
  5. ↑ 306Dorene#1,207 → #901
Fallers
  1. ↓ 321Veva#962 → #1,283
  2. ↓ 318Arlie#949 → #1,267
  3. ↓ 305Gaynell#978 → #1,283
  4. ↓ 303Trinidad#449 → #752
  5. ↓ 300Laurine#897 → #1,197

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1923 →