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Arlet

#642 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Arlette

Arlet has been given to 3,351 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #642 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 493 recorded.

Babies named Arlet, 2025

1 in 7,370

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arlet: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arlette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arlet means

Arlet is a form of Arlette.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Arlet → Arlette. The family’s proposed meaning is “army”, recorded in French with the source elements harjaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Arlet is used in Estonian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arlette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,346 girls were recorded with the name Arlet between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 493 in 2023; its best national rank was #603 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,744 in 2020 to #642 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,851 in 2015 to #642 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Arlet between 1922 and 1922. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1922; its best national rank was #4,343 in 1922.

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 Arlet?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,370
450 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 3,570
0.03% of girls
Rank, 2025
#642
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arlet 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 5,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arlets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlet was born before 2022 — so the typical Arlet is around 3 today.

Median birth year
2022
About 3 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,309
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (2,032).

Is Arlet 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
+72
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,102
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,209
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
11.54×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.3%
Peak was 2023 (493)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#603
2023

Spellings of Arlet

Arlet is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 27.7% against Arlet's 0.65%.

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 Arlet is used

Across 2016–2025, Arlet was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 5,847 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

229 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,448
  2. 2New York1 in 3,846
  3. 3Texas1 in 3,846
  4. 4California1 in 4,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 4,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 4,545
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 5,263
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 6,250

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.

Geographically, Arlet is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 60% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Arlet around the world

Where Arlet 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
    2022–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Notable people named Arlet

People whose public names include Arlet, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Arlet by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#642
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,102
Best rank ever
#603
2023
Peak year
2023
493 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,346
Count in 2025
450

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,343
1922
Peak year
1922
5 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1922
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arlet

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

ArlieArlynArlenaArlaArleeArleyArlinArlenArlethArlettArlettaArloArleenArlyArlysArletteArlynnArlisArleanEvoletArlyneArleighArlenyYamilet

Names with a curve like Arlet

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

SolanaMillerJaylaniAlaiyaMarigoldAmouraIylaElowynOceanSevynElaniLakelynn

Sibling names for Arlet

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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