girls:
12.6k births since 1898
#1397 (76th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1942
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
12.6k births since 1898
#2349 (70th percentile)
The name Arleen is the #2,349 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,570 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 69.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,397 (75.6% percentile) for all time with 12,564 births since 1898. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1942.
Arleen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1942 for boys). Birth data for Arleen is available in 125 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (125 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Arleen has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Arleen reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 50.7% percentile (ranked #287) with 366 births per million. The name was most common in 1939, with 366 births per million (ranked 50.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Arleen ranks #918 for girls (3.1% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 5.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Arleen reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #550) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1942.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arleen".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Arleen", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Arlene" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Arlene..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Arleen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 49.1% confident that Arleen is pronounced as ahr-LEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-leen, at 24.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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