Arleigh

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Peak · girls
2017 · 43 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
710
since 1924

Arleigh over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank1900192019401960198020002020peak #3,552, 2017peak #1,130, 1903girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#6,11619—
2024#4,89327—
2023#4,45431#10,8216
2022#4,10835#8,9908
2021#4,16734—
2020#4,54829—
2019#4,00636—
2018#4,76828#9,6707
2017#3,55243—
2016#3,84939—
2015#6,23620—
2014#4,54431—
2013#4,75529—
2012#4,48632—
2011#5,20726—
2010#5,41425—
2009#5,37826—
2008#5,75024#12,5535
2007#6,81219—
2006#7,48216—
2005#7,50015—
2004#9,89210—
2003#6,57617—
2002#6,69816—
2001#8,75811—
2000#11,8017—
1999#7,23913—
1998#7,10413—
1997#13,7245—
1996——
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1993#10,5887—
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1987#11,3255—
1986——
1985#10,6775—
1984#8,1537#6,3155
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1964—#4,0395
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1962—#3,0418
1961—#3,0978
1960—#3,0778
1959—#3,9885
1958—#3,9445
1957——
1956—#2,26313
1955—#3,2017
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1952—#3,7345
1951—#3,3646
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1949—#2,33711
1948——
1947—#3,0967
1946—#2,9197
1945—#2,7437
1944—#2,30910
1943—#2,40510
1942—#3,2126
1941—#3,1336
1940—#3,1306
1939—#2,05012
1938—#1,97613
1937—#2,19711
1936—#2,4529
1935—#2,12712
1934—#2,39310
1933—#1,90514
1932—#2,31311
1931—#2,00314
1930—#2,7819
1929—#3,2477
1928#4,7255#2,38712
1927—#2,52311
1926—#1,60522
1925—#2,43512
1924#5,0615#3,0239
1923—#2,33113
1922—#2,04016
1921—#1,58823
1920—#2,33613
1919—#2,38512
1918—#2,26013
1917—#2,28012
1916—#2,54310
1915—#1,78216
1914—#2,10110
1913—#2,8215
1912—#2,5445
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1903—#1,1305
1902—#1,1375
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First appearance
1924

The first year at least five girls were named Arleigh! It came in at #5,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1924–1983, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Arleigh is popular in 2025

No state had 5 or more girls named Arleigh in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arleigh
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,568 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #6,116)
  • 120 spots since 2015 (#6,236 → #6,116)
Rise & fade · girls
93 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1924
  • Peaked 2017 at #3,552 (43 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs 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 40,150
  • Highest: 1 in 40,150 girls born in 2017 were named Arleigh (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 43.5% of all girls named Arleigh (309) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1984
  • Mostly boys until 1983, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s10#4,725 (1928)#4,893
1930s0——
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s0——
1970s0——
1980s17#8,153 (1984)#10,052
1990s38#7,104 (1998)#9,664
2000s161#5,378 (2009)#7,665
2010s309#3,552 (2017)#4,682
2020s175#4,108 (2022)#4,714

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.

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