Arlon
#5,627 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arlon has been given to 1,472 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #5,627 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1933, with 38 recorded.
Babies named Arlon, 2025
1 in 207,000
Arlon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arlon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #5,627
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arlon 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlon was born before 1944 — so the typical Arlon is around 81 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 19.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.1%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 622
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (280).
Is Arlon 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
- +1,663
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,595
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.1%
- Peak was 1933 (38)
- Years since peak
- 92
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.0% average annual change
Spellings of Arlon
Arlon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 23.2% against Arlon's 0.06%.
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 Arlon is used
Across 1910–2025, Arlon was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 98,288 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).
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. Arlon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arlon around the world
Where Arlon 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 & Wales2020–2025#5,137in 2025
- France2010–2010#6,248in 2010
- South Australia1988–1988#476in 1988
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arlon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arlon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arlon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.