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Arleen

#6,144 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Arline

Arleen has been given to 12,617 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #6,144 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1939, with 415 recorded.

Babies named Arleen, 2025

1 in 174,000

Arleen over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arleen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Arline

coinages

What Arleen means

Arleen is a variant of Arline.

Origin, language, and formation

Arleen is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Arleen is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arline and Arlene.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,611 girls were recorded with the name Arleen between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 415 in 1939; its best national rank was #303 in 1939.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,688 in 2020 to #6,144 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,966 in 2015 to #6,144 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Arleen between 1942 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1942; its best national rank was #3,230 in 1942.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arleen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,144
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arleen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

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

Put another way: gather 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arleen was born before 1949 — so the typical Arleen is around 76 today.

Median birth year
1949
About 76 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
6,283
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1940s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (2,560).

Is Arleen 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
−1,367
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,456
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,178
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.6%
Peak was 1939 (415)
Years since peak
86
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#303
1939

Spellings of Arleen

Arleen is not the most common spelling — Eileen is, with 30.9% against Arleen's 2.1%.

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 Arleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Arleen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 15,808 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

029 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 3,448
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 5,882
  3. 3New York1 in 6,250
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 7,692
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 10,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 12,500
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 12,500

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. Arleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arleen around the world

Where Arleen 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.

  • England & Wales
    2018–2023
    #4,057
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1974–1991
    #634
    in 1991
  • Ireland
    1980–1980
    #542
    in 1980
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1961–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arleen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,144
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,456
Best rank ever
#303
1939
Peak year
1939
415 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,611
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,230
1942
Peak year
1942
6 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
1942
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arleen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArlethArletteArlenaArlineNoreenAyleenJoleenJayleenArletArlettQueenArlieAileenArlettaDarleenArleneArlynKayleenLoreenColeenDoreenLaureenYasmeenArla

Names with a curve like Arleen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arleen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IleneKittyMarylouMadonnaEdwinaNitaDorethaDottieCelestineDonaTwilaMickey

Sibling names for Arleen

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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