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Arleta

Girls' name

Form of Arlette

Arleta has been given to 1,030 babies in the U.S. since 1909. 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 1932, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Arleta, 2023

1 in 663,000

Arleta over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arleta: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arlette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arleta means

Arleta is a form of Arlette.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Arleta is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ar.ˈlɛ.ta/ for Arleta.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arlette.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,030 girls were recorded with the name Arleta between 1909 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1932; its best national rank was #1,296 in 1932.

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 Arleta?

Arleta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arleta 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arleta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arletas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arleta was born before 1938 — so the typical Arleta is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1930s
22.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.49%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
273
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1930s — 22.6% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Arleta 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 1932 (32)
Years since peak
93
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,296
1932

Spellings of Arleta

Arleta is not the most common spelling — Arlene is, with 28.2% against Arleta's 0.20%.

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 Arleta is used

Across 1910–2025, Arleta was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 496,925 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 33,333
  2. 2Kansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Iowa1 in —
  5. 5Missouri1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Arleta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arleta around the world

Where Arleta 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 Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Arleta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,296
1932
Peak year
1932
32 that year
First recorded
1909
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
1,030
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arleta

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

ArlettArlynnArleyArleeArlinArlenArlenaArleighArlenyArlissArlynArlettaArlyneArloArlieArlyArleanArlethArlanaArletArlysArlisaArloweArlis

Sibling names for Arleta

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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