Arly
#7,174 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arly has been given to 895 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #7,174 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 246 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.
Babies named Arly, 2025
1 in 221,000
Arly 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Arly over time
In 2025, Arly went to 65% girls and 35% 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 Arly?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,174
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arly 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arly was born before 2003 — so the typical Arly is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 64.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 820
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 64.5% of all recorded uses (529).
Is Arly 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
- +4,049
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +83
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,815
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 6.1%
- Peak was 2003 (246)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.5% average annual change
Spellings of Arly
Arly is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 65.4% against Arly's 0.01%.
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 Arly is used
Across 1910–2025, Arly was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 173,894 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Colorado1 in 100,000
- 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 5Nevada1 in 100,000
- 6New York1 in 100,000
- 7Texas1 in 100,000
- 8Florida1 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. Arly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arly around the world
Where Arly 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 & Wales2024–2024#5,892in 2024
- South Australia2008–2012#871in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arly by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Arly
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arly
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.