girls:
2.5k births since 1883
#3492 (39th percentile)
boys:
6.7k births since 1880
#1437 (69th percentile)
overall:
9.1k births since 1880
#2823 (64th percentile)
The name Arlie is the #2,823 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,138 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 63.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,437 (68.7% percentile) for all time with 6,677 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,492 (38.9% percentile) for all time with 2,461 births since 1883.
Arlie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1883 for girls). Birth data for Arlie is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 117 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 Arlie has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 21.1% of babies named Arlie were boys.
For boys, Arlie reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 28.4% percentile (ranked #394) with 149 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 217 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arlie ranks #897 for boys (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 4.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arlie reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #531) with 62 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 90 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Arlie ranks #881 for girls (7.0% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 45.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arlie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Arlie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Arlie is pronounced as AHR-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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