Arlyne
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arlyne has been given to 1,469 babies in the U.S. since 1911. 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 1921, with 67 recorded.
Babies named Arlyne, 2018
1 in 293,000
Arlyne 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Arlyne?
Arlyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 293,000
- 12 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 203,143 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arlyne sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 203,143 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlynes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlyne was born before 1933 — so the typical Arlyne is around 92 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 28.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 12.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 320
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 28.2% of all recorded uses (414).
Is Arlyne 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 1921 (67)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.9% average annual change
Spellings of Arlyne
Arlyne is not the most common spelling — Darlene is, with 29.0% against Arlyne's 0.21%.
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 Arlyne is used
Across 1910–2025, Arlyne was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 152,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Wisconsin1 in 50,000
- 2Minnesota1 in 100,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Connecticut1 in —
- 6Iowa1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Nebraska1 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. Arlyne has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arlyne around the world
Where Arlyne 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.
- France1948–1948#1,417in 1948
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Arlyne by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arlyne
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arlyne
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.