Arlin

Where Arlin comes from

Arlin 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.

Along the way
  1. 1910
    First appearance
    #1,118 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1921
    Arlin M. Adams born
    American federal judge
  3. 1935
    Peak, #641
    85 babies named Arlin — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1954
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,382.
  5. 2010
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys 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
  • Arlin M. Adams · American federal judge, 1921–2015

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.