girls:
101 births since 2011
#5615 (2nd percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1880
#3110 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1880
#6099 (21st percentile)
The name Arlington is the #6,099 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,649 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 21.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,110 (32.1% percentile) for all time with 1,548 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,615 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 101 births since 2011.
Arlington has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2011 for girls). Birth data for Arlington is available in 121 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (121 years for boys and 12 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 Arlington has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 63.2% of babies named Arlington were boys.
For boys, Arlington reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 7.6% percentile (ranked #478) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 65 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arlington ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 20.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arlington reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #938) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Arlington is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #938 (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arlington".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arlington. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Arlington is pronounced as AHR-lihngt-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-lihng-tuhn, at 15.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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