Arlene

girls:

142.8k births since 1888

#277 (95th percentile)

boys:

361 births since 1916

#4225 (8th percentile)

overall:

143.1k births since 1888

#521 (93rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arlene".

1888 2023 18882023

Key Statistics

Total Births
142,768
Peak Births
3,917
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1888
Peak Percentile
90.8%
Current Percentile
11.3%
Peak Rank
#53
Current Rank
#840
Female statistics
Total Births
361
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
3.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#502
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Arlene

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arlene. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.5% confident that Arlene is pronounced as AHR-leen. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-LEEN, at 29.1% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Arlene. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Arlene, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AHR-lain (2 syllables)
4 names 19.1k births
AA1 R L AY0 N
AH-ruh-leen (3 syllables)
5 names 1.8k births
AA1 R AH0 L IY0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R L IY0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.