Arlow
#3,132 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arlow has been given to 463 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #3,132 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% boys, 21% girls all-time.
Babies named Arlow, 2025
1 in 87,200
Arlow 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Arlow over time
In 2025, Arlow went to 19% girls and 81% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Arlow?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 44,900
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,132
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arlow 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlow. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlows were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlow was born before 2019 — so the typical Arlow is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 49.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 267
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 49.7% of all recorded uses (182).
Is Arlow 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
- +141
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,336
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 90.5%
- Peak was 2022 (42)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Arlow
Arlow is not the most common spelling — Carlos is, with 65.7% against Arlow's 0.08%.
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 Arlow is used
Across 1910–2025, Arlow was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,446,611 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Iowa1 in —
- 4Texas1 in —
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. Arlow has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arlow around the world
Where Arlow 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 & Wales2010–2025#2,952in 2025
- Scotland2023–2023#728in 2023
- France2023–2025#5,154in 2025
- Canada2017–2024#2,550in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Arlow by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Arlow
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arlow
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.