Arlet

#642 for girls in 2025, 450 births · Last seen for boys in 1922 at #4,307
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2023 · 493 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,346
since 1918

Arlet over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Arlet has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918girlsat peak
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#642450—
2024#714393—
2023#603493—
2022#742390—
2021#1,229191—
2020#1,743115—
2019#1,668126—
2018#1,953101—
2017#1,738122—
2016#1,667128—
2015#3,84239—
2014#3,71941—
2013#4,75529—
2012#3,31449—
2011#3,40747—
2010#4,73530—
2009#4,26935—
2008#4,64732—
2007#3,53146—
2006#3,73441—
2005#3,00953—
2004#2,67961—
2003#2,63860—
2002#3,88933—
2001#4,56426—
2000#5,31221—
1999#5,42419—
1998#5,79917—
1997#6,16315—
1996#11,8076—
1995#8,07910—
1994#8,12210—
1993#6,26414—
1992#13,3175—
1991#8,5889—
1990#8,5019—
1989#9,6817—
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1986#9,5456—
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five girls were named Arlet! It came in at #4,291, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1920–1922, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Arlet is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Arlet in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arlet
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 72 spots since 2024 (#714 → #642)
  • 1,101 spots since 2020 (#1,743 → #642)
  • 3,200 spots since 2015 (#3,842 → #642)
  • Biggest jump: 487 spots in 2022 (#1,229 → #742)
  • Biggest drop: 111 spots in 2024 (#603 → #714)
Rise & fade · girls
105 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 2023 at #603 (493 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 2022–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 3,255
  • Highest: 1 in 3,255 girls born in 2023 were named Arlet (0.03%)
  • Latest: 1 in 3,572 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 60.7% of all girls named Arlet (2,032) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s12#4,251 (1919)#4,271
1920s25#3,564 (1926)#4,251
1930s0——
1940s0——
1950s0——
1960s5#6,804 (1967)#6,804
1970s0——
1980s38#7,398 (1984)#9,368
1990s114#5,424 (1999)#8,206
2000s408#2,638 (2003)#3,827
2010s712#1,667 (2016)#3,080
2020s2,032#603 (2023)#946

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.

Arlet in 1918

girls
#4,291
6 births · 1 in 192,939 girls

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #4,291Arlet6
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 192,939 of them was named Arlet, which outranked 23.2% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arlet
  1. #3,869Zelna7
  2. #3,869Zenia7
  3. #3,869Zonnie7
  4. #4,291Arlet6
  5. #4,291Abby6
  6. #4,291Adelphia6
  7. #4,291Affie6
  8. #4,809Abie5
  9. #4,809Adalee5
  10. #4,809Addis5

Tied with 517 names at #4,291; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

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

See the top 100 for 1918 →