Arlette
#494 for girls in 2025, 600 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 600 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,109since 1913
Arlette over time
Rank among girls' names. Arlette has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #494 | 600 |
| 2024 | #583 | 517 |
| 2023 | #735 | 383 |
| 2022 | #800 | 352 |
| 2021 | #993 | 259 |
| 2020 | #1,050 | 238 |
| 2019 | #965 | 272 |
| 2018 | #895 | 301 |
| 2017 | #1,082 | 234 |
| 2016 | #1,039 | 254 |
| 2015 | #1,667 | 128 |
| 2014 | #1,818 | 112 |
| 2013 | #1,524 | 144 |
| 2012 | #1,503 | 148 |
| 2011 | #1,540 | 142 |
| 2010 | #1,513 | 148 |
| 2009 | #1,934 | 108 |
| 2008 | #1,740 | 127 |
| 2007 | #1,598 | 140 |
| 2006 | #1,473 | 150 |
| 2005 | #1,417 | 151 |
| 2004 | #1,186 | 189 |
| 2003 | #1,195 | 179 |
| 2002 | #1,193 | 171 |
| 2001 | #1,523 | 122 |
| 2000 | #2,089 | 78 |
| 1999 | #2,471 | 58 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,423 | 54 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 |
| 1994 | #2,797 | 43 |
| 1993 | #2,938 | 40 |
| 1992 | #3,144 | 36 |
| 1991 | #3,369 | 32 |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 |
| 1989 | #2,986 | 36 |
| 1988 | #3,893 | 23 |
| 1987 | #4,660 | 17 |
| 1986 | #3,277 | 27 |
| 1985 | #4,282 | 18 |
| 1984 | #3,990 | 19 |
| 1983 | #3,687 | 21 |
| 1982 | #4,945 | 14 |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 |
| 1980 | #3,318 | 25 |
| 1979 | #4,626 | 15 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,052 | 23 |
| 1974 | #4,459 | 13 |
| 1973 | #3,971 | 15 |
| 1972 | #2,747 | 25 |
| 1971 | #2,427 | 31 |
| 1970 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1969 | #2,350 | 30 |
| 1968 | #1,975 | 37 |
| 1967 | #2,632 | 22 |
| 1966 | #1,859 | 38 |
| 1965 | #1,993 | 34 |
| 1964 | #1,918 | 38 |
| 1963 | #1,787 | 42 |
| 1962 | #1,540 | 53 |
| 1961 | #1,360 | 67 |
| 1960 | #1,835 | 38 |
| 1959 | #2,191 | 27 |
| 1958 | #1,606 | 44 |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 |
| 1956 | #1,548 | 47 |
| 1955 | #1,404 | 51 |
| 1954 | #1,344 | 55 |
| 1953 | #1,565 | 39 |
| 1952 | #1,680 | 34 |
| 1951 | #1,665 | 33 |
| 1950 | #1,720 | 30 |
| 1949 | #1,335 | 47 |
| 1948 | #1,358 | 46 |
| 1947 | #1,510 | 39 |
| 1946 | #1,306 | 44 |
| 1945 | #1,874 | 20 |
| 1944 | #2,199 | 16 |
| 1943 | #1,834 | 22 |
| 1942 | #1,860 | 21 |
| 1941 | #1,610 | 24 |
| 1940 | #1,404 | 29 |
| 1939 | #1,350 | 30 |
| 1938 | #1,127 | 41 |
| 1937 | #2,317 | 13 |
| 1936 | #1,375 | 28 |
| 1935 | #1,356 | 29 |
| 1934 | #1,834 | 18 |
| 1933 | #2,161 | 14 |
| 1932 | #2,235 | 14 |
| 1931 | #1,686 | 21 |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 |
| 1929 | #2,098 | 16 |
| 1928 | #1,589 | 26 |
| 1927 | #1,071 | 51 |
| 1926 | #1,830 | 22 |
| 1925 | #2,018 | 19 |
| 1924 | #2,409 | 15 |
| 1923 | #1,736 | 24 |
| 1922 | #2,109 | 18 |
| 1921 | #1,668 | 26 |
| 1920 | #1,952 | 20 |
| 1919 | #3,005 | 10 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 |
| 1916 | #2,833 | 10 |
| 1915 | #3,134 | 8 |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Arlette! It came in at #2,540, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913–1915, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Arlette is popular in 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Louisiana#571 · 1 in 6,262
Best ever in a state: #222 in Hawaii, 1968.
Show every state
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| Louisiana | #571 | 6 | 1 in 6,262 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Arlette
- 89 spots since 2024 (#583 → #494)
- 556 spots since 2020 (#1,050 → #494)
- 1,173 spots since 2015 (#1,667 → #494)
- Biggest jump: 193 spots in 2022 (#993 → #800)
- Biggest drop: 85 spots in 2020 (#965 → #1,050)
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 2025 at #494 (600 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,679 girls born in 2025 were named Arlette (0.04%)
- 29.0% of all girls named Arlette (2,349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 61 | #2,540 (1913) | #2,948 |
| 1920s | 237 | #1,071 (1927) | #1,848 |
| 1930s | 241 | #1,127 (1938) | #1,676 |
| 1940s | 308 | #1,306 (1946) | #1,629 |
| 1950s | 382 | #1,344 (1954) | #1,714 |
| 1960s | 399 | #1,360 (1961) | #1,925 |
| 1970s | 199 | #2,267 (1970) | #3,747 |
| 1980s | 220 | #2,986 (1989) | #3,890 |
| 1990s | 415 | #2,279 (1998) | #3,064 |
| 2000s | 1,415 | #1,186 (2004) | #1,535 |
| 2010s | 1,883 | #895 (2018) | #1,355 |
| 2020s | 2,349 | #494 (2025) | #776 |
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.
Arlette in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 38,339 of them was named Arlette, which outranked 79.1% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,383Shanna52
- #1,383Sheliah52
- #1,383Suzie52
- #1,404Arlette51
- #1,404Alane51
- #1,404Barb51
- #1,404Darby51
- #1,423Bernetta50
- #1,423Billy50
- #1,423Carin50
Tied with 18 names at #1,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.