Arilene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arilene has been given to 27 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Arilene, 2005
1 in 641,000
Arilene over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arilene?
Arilene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 641,000
- 6 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 308,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 444,107 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arilene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 444,107 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arilene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arilenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arilene was born before 1992 — so the typical Arilene is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 27
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Arilene rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1992 (11)
- Years since peak
- 33
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Arilene
Arilene is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 32.8% against Arilene's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Arilene is used
Across 1910–2025, Arilene was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arilene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arilene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arilene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arilene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.