girls:
7k births since 1913
#1962 (66th percentile)
overall:
7k births since 1913
#3224 (58th percentile)
The name Arlette is the #3,224 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,992 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 58.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,962 (65.7% percentile) for all time with 6,992 births since 1913.
Arlette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for girls in 1913).
For girls, Arlette reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 37.7% percentile (ranked #590) with 219 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 219 births per million (ranked 37.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Arlette is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #590 (37.7% percentile) with 219 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arlette".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arlette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.5% confident that Arlette is pronounced as ahr-LEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-LEHT, at 19.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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