Arlette

Where Arlette comes from

Arlette hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1913
    First appearance
    #2,540 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Arlette Laguiller born
    French politician
  3. 1990
    Arlette Contreras born
    Peruvian lawyer and advocate for women's rights and domestic violence
  4. 2025
    Peak, #494
    600 babies named Arlette — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arlette Laguiller · French politician, born 1940
  • Arlette Contreras · Peruvian lawyer and advocate for women's rights and domestic violence, born 1990
  • Arlette Zola · Swiss singer, born 1949
  • Arlette Marchal · actress, 1902–1984
  • Arlette Farge · French historian and teacher, born 1941

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.