Arlow

#10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 79.0% of the time

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Peak · boys
#2,459
1920 · 12 births
Debut · boys
1914
6 births
In top 100 · boys
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of 146 years
Total births · boys
366
since 1914

Arlow over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202023peak #2,459, 1920girlsat peakboys
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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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2025#10,1079#3,12838
2024#7,59414#3,27236
2023—#3,62931
2022#6,70717#2,96242
2021#7,63014#4,93619
2020#7,55914#5,45116
2019#13,7996#5,55516
2018—#4,35423
2017#9,94310#5,78815
2016#11,7818#4,94319
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Arlow! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.

Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Arlow is popular in 2023

  • Rank in state
  • Top 10
  • 11–50
  • 51–100
  • 101–500
  • 501+
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Alaska: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedAKMaine: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMEVermont: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedVTNew Hampshire: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNHWashington: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedWAIdaho: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedIDMontana: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMTNorth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNDMinnesota: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMNIllinois: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedILWisconsin: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedWIMichigan: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMINew York: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNYMassachusetts: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMARhode Island: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedRIOregon: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedORNevada: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNVWyoming: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedWYSouth Dakota: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedSDIowa: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedIAIndiana: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedINOhio: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedOHPennsylvania: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedPANew Jersey: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNJConnecticut: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedCTCalifornia: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedCAUtah: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedUTColorado: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedCONebraska: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNEMissouri: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMOKentucky: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedKYWest Virginia: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedWVVirginia: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedVAMaryland: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMDDelaware: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedDEArizona: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedAZNew Mexico: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNMKansas: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedKSArkansas: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedARTennessee: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedTNNorth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedNCSouth Carolina: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedSCDistrict of Columbia: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedDCOklahoma: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedOKLouisiana: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedLAMississippi: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedMSAlabama: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedALGeorgia: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedGAHawaii: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedHITexas: #2,628 for boys · 5 births · 1 in 35,481 boysTXFlorida: fewer than 5 boys named Arlow, so not publishedFL

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Top states · boys
  1. Texas#2,628 · 1 in 35,481

Best ever in a state: #571 in Iowa, 2025.

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See more about Arlow
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 144 spots since 2024 (#3,272 → #3,128)
  • 2,323 spots since 2020 (#5,451 → #3,128)
Rise & fade · boys
6 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1920 at #2,459 (12 births)
  • Births halved by 1921, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 41,572
  • Highest: 1 in 41,572 boys born in 2022 were named Arlow (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,459 in 1920, was only 1 in 88,696 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 49.7% of all boys named Arlow (182) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2016
  • Mostly girls until 2015, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s24#2,915 (1914)#3,512
1920s47#2,459 (1920)#3,720
1930s23#2,854 (1936)#3,474
1940s5#3,560 (1942)#3,560
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2010s85#4,354 (2018)#7,014
2020s182#2,962 (2022)#3,896

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Arlow in 2023

boys
#3,629
31 births · 1 in 55,180 boys

Top boys' names in 2023

  1. #1Liam20,904
  2. #2Noah19,116
  3. #3Oliver14,792
  4. #4James11,739
  5. #5Elijah11,523
  6. #6Mateo11,293
  7. #7Theodore11,093
  8. #8Henry10,996
  9. #9Lucas10,890
  10. #10William10,673
  11. #3,629Arlow31
More about 2023

boys

1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 55,180 of them was named Arlow, which outranked 74.5% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arlow
  1. #3,566Zubayr32
  2. #3,566Zymeir32
  3. #3,566Zymere32
  4. #3,629Arlow31
  5. #3,629Adhrit31
  6. #3,629Amire31
  7. #3,629Ashten31
  8. #3,712Aavyan30
  9. #3,712Aeson30
  10. #3,712Alasdair30

Tied with 82 names at #3,629; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2022
Risers
  1. ↑ 858Izael#1,665 → #807
  2. ↑ 662Chozen#1,479 → #817
  3. ↑ 589Eiden#1,479 → #890
  4. ↑ 409Cassian#938 → #529
  5. ↑ 385Kyren#1,322 → #937
Fallers
  1. ↓ 384Dior#842 → #1,226
  2. ↓ 275Maxton#963 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 205Davian#967 → #1,172
  4. ↓ 193Braden#935 → #1,128
  5. ↓ 191Heath#862 → #1,053

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

See the top 100 for 2023 →