Arliss

Last seen for girls in 1994 at #13,430 · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to girls 52.4% of the time

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Peak · girls
1933 · 44 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
801
since 1919

Arliss over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201925peak #1,050, 1933peak #1,361, 1933girlsboys
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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—#4,39623
2024—#4,70121
2023—#4,11226
2022—#5,63316
2021—#5,77615
2020—#5,23517
2019—#7,17311
2018—#7,61710
2017—#6,33813
2016—#8,1469
2015—#9,5687
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2011—#10,8086
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2008—#8,3249
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2006—#12,0555
2005—#10,1516
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2002—#9,3926
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2000—#7,4168
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1998—#9,6315
1997—#5,64210
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1994#13,4305—
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1988—#5,7517
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1986—#6,7215
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1984—#6,3155
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1981—#6,2625
1980—#6,2505
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1978—#5,7725
1977—#5,8455
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1975—#4,7976
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1968#7,0165—
1967—#3,2317
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1965#5,8176—
1964—#4,0395
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1961#5,8516—
1960#6,3905#2,8719
1959#5,0317#3,6196
1958#3,54312#2,09315
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1956#3,49312#2,7989
1955#4,0699—
1954#4,6557#3,1767
1953#3,10613#2,53110
1952#3,37211#3,0957
1951#3,7149#2,6629
1950#2,78114#2,7708
1949#2,99912—
1948#2,97412#3,0107
1947#2,89813#3,7335
1946#2,48215#2,6908
1945#2,91610#1,77215
1944#2,19916—
1943#1,94920#2,5639
1942#1,98119#1,79916
1941#2,53212#1,99713
1940#1,96517#2,8717
1939#1,73120#2,05012
1938#1,65022#1,55919
1937#1,63022#2,4799
1936#1,06243#1,80115
1935#1,26432#1,53820
1934#1,40927#1,38624
1933#1,05044#1,36124
1932#1,16238#1,42624
1931#1,25833#1,92715
1930#1,49927#1,46325
1929#1,70422#2,7669
1928#2,28415#2,38712
1927#2,09518#2,9129
1926#1,66725#2,9049
1925#1,60927#3,4087
1924#2,30816#2,64111
1923#2,02119#2,33113
1922#1,83622#2,48612
1921#1,47631#3,2148
1920#1,70824—
1919#3,8177#4,1685
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First appearance
1919

The first year at least five girls were named Arliss! It came in at #3,817, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Arliss is popular in 1925

No state had 5 or more girls named Arliss in 1925, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arliss
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1994
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1919
  • Peaked 1933 at #1,050 (44 births)
  • Births halved by 1937, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 22,908
  • Highest: 1 in 22,908 girls born in 1933 were named Arliss (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 357,151 girls born in 1994 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1930s
  • 38.5% of all girls named Arliss (308) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1997
  • Mostly girls until 1996, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s7#3,817 (1919)#3,817
1920s219#1,476 (1921)#1,871
1930s308#1,050 (1933)#1,372
1940s146#1,949 (1943)#2,490
1950s94#2,781 (1950)#3,752
1960s22#5,817 (1965)#6,269
1970s0——
1980s0——
1990s5#13,430 (1994)#13,430

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.

Arliss in 1925

girls
#1,609
27 births · 1 in 45,088 girls
boys
#3,408
7 births · 1 in 159,417 boys

Top girls' names in 1925

  1. #1Mary70,586
  2. #2Dorothy38,570
  3. #3Betty32,812
  4. #4Helen29,173
  5. #5Margaret24,463
  6. #6Ruth22,247
  7. #7Virginia17,490
  8. #8Doris16,075
  9. #9Mildred14,453
  10. #10Elizabeth13,936
  11. #1,609Arliss27

Top boys' names in 1925

  1. #1Robert60,895
  2. #2John57,195
  3. #3William53,310
  4. #4James52,680
  5. #5Charles29,580
  6. #6George26,560
  7. #7Joseph24,613
  8. #8Richard23,269
  9. #9Edward20,090
  10. #10Donald19,193
  11. #3,408Arliss7
More about 1925

girls

1,217,384 girls got a published name in 1925; 1 in 45,088 of them was named Arliss, which outranked 72.1% of the 5,771 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arliss
  1. #1,576Wilhelmenia28
  2. #1,576Wynell28
  3. #1,576Zettie28
  4. #1,609Arliss27
  5. #1,609Annamay27
  6. #1,609Arizona27
  7. #1,609Armella27
  8. #1,647Abby26
  9. #1,647Aleene26
  10. #1,647Alida26

Tied with 37 names at #1,609; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. ↑ 605Nanette#1,475 → #870
  2. ↑ 417Paulina#1,258 → #841
  3. ↑ 353Estela#1,258 → #905
  4. ↑ 323Delois#1,123 → #800
  5. ↑ 313Veola#1,301 → #988
Fallers
  1. ↓ 610Kathlyn#999 → #1,609
  2. ↓ 396Izetta#951 → #1,347
  3. ↓ 355Loma#941 → #1,296
  4. ↓ 345Phylis#880 → #1,225
  5. ↓ 309Eris#728 → #1,037

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

boys

1,115,919 boys got a published name in 1925; 1 in 159,417 of them was named Arliss, which outranked 30.0% of the 4,867 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arliss
  1. #3,155Yvon8
  2. #3,155Zeke8
  3. #3,155Zell8
  4. #3,408Arliss7
  5. #3,408Abbott7
  6. #3,408Abran7
  7. #3,408Abron7
  8. #3,741Abell6
  9. #3,741Adley6
  10. #3,741Agostino6

Tied with 332 names at #3,408; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1924
Risers
  1. ↑ 548Okey#1,532 → #984
  2. ↑ 494Eddy#1,492 → #998
  3. ↑ 422Terrence#1,223 → #801
  4. ↑ 371Hughie#1,355 → #984
  5. ↑ 363Rexford#1,287 → #924
Fallers
  1. ↓ 444Baxter#916 → #1,360
  2. ↓ 429Adelbert#817 → #1,246
  3. ↓ 407Jonnie#925 → #1,332
  4. ↓ 406Faustino#984 → #1,390
  5. ↓ 387Deward#859 → #1,246

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

See the top 100 for 1925 →