Arlander

Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Arlander has been given to 125 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1922, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Arlander, 1961

1 in 592,000

Arlander over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Arlander?

Arlander had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1961, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1961
1 in 592,000
7 of 4,142,426 births
Among boys only
1 in 303,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1961
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
410,188 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arlander sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1961 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 410,188 children born in 1961 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arlanders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlander was born before 1939 — so the typical Arlander is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
41
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Arlander 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (7)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,844
1939

Spellings of Arlander

Arlander is not the most common spelling — Arland is, with 49.3% against Arlander's 3.4%.

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.

Arlander by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,844
1939
Peak year
1922
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1961
All-time count
125
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arlander

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Sibling names for Arlander

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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