Arlie

Where Arlie comes from

Arlie 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. 1860
    Arlie Latham born
    American baseball player and coach
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #745 among boys — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1904
    Peak, #368
    30 babies named Arlie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1940
    Arlie Russell Hochschild born
    American sociologist
  5. 1982
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,282.
  6. 2011
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild · American sociologist, born 1940
  • Arlie Latham · American baseball player and coach, 1860–1952
  • Arlie Mucks · American discus thrower and shot putter, 1891–1967

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.