Arlee
#4,181 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arlee has been given to 1,702 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #4,181 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 48 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.
Babies named Arlee, 2025
1 in 97,500
Arlee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Arlee over time
In 2025, Arlee went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Arlee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,181
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arlee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlee was born before 1983 — so the typical Arlee is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 18.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 723
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (234).
Is Arlee 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
- −417
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +94
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +810
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.26×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 70.8%
- Peak was 2023 (48)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.6% average annual change
Spellings of Arlee
Arlee is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 11.7% against Arlee's 0.07%.
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 Arlee is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Arlee was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 523,504 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2Arkansas1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4Mississippi1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Arlee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Arlee is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Arlee was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,261,268 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Arlee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arlee around the world
Where Arlee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2006–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arlee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Arlee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arlee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.