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Arlette

#494 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly army

Arlette has been given to 8,109 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #494 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 600 recorded.

Babies named Arlette, 2025

1 in 5,530

Arlette over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arlette: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly army

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arlette means

Arlette may mean “army”, associated with harjaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Arlette is used in French and Norman.

Arlette comes through Old French Herleva.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Arlette is pronounced /aʁ.lɛt/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,109 girls were recorded with the name Arlette between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 600 in 2025; its best national rank was #494 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,050 in 2020 to #494 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,670 in 2015 to #494 in 2025.

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 Arlette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,530
600 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 2,680
0.04% of girls
Rank, 2025
#494
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,831 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arlette 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,831 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arlettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlette was born before 2011 — so the typical Arlette is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
29.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
7,262
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Choose a decade

2020s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (2,349).

Is Arlette 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+556
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,176
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.69×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (600)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#494
2025

Spellings of Arlette

Arlette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 38.3% against Arlette's 1.8%.

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 Arlette is used

Across 2016–2025, Arlette was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 1,887 girls, against 1 in 4,057 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 50,000).

253 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 1,887
  2. 2Arizona1 in 1,923
  3. 3Nevada1 in 1,961
  4. 4California1 in 2,083
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 2,439
  6. 6New Jersey1 in 3,704
  7. 7Illinois1 in 3,846
  8. 8Colorado1 in 4,000

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, Arlette is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 93% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Arlette around the world

Where Arlette 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
    2002–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1977–1977
    #518
    in 1977
  • France
    1900–2025
    #4,565
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2019–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Arlette

People whose public names include Arlette, 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.

Arlette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#494
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 556
Best rank ever
#494
2025
Peak year
2025
600 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,109
Count in 2025
600

Names similar to Arlette

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

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Names with a curve like Arlette

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

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Sibling names for Arlette

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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