girls:
5 births since 1950
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1901
#2945 (36th percentile)
overall:
1.8k births since 1901
#5959 (23rd percentile)
The name Arland is the #5,959 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,795 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 23.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,945 (35.7% percentile) for all time with 1,790 births since 1901. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1950.
Arland first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for boys and 1950 for girls). Birth data for Arland is available in 92 out of the 123 years between 1901 and 2023 (92 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Arland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arland reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 8.9% percentile (ranked #470) with 48 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arland ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arland reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #671) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1950.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arland".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arland. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.4% confident that Arland is pronounced as AHR-luhnd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-luhn, at 2.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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