girls:
797 births since 1910
#4919 (14th percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1906
#2856 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1906
#5160 (33rd percentile)
The name Arlis is the #5,160 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,727 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 33.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,856 (37.7% percentile) for all time with 1,930 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #4,919 (13.9% percentile) for all time with 797 births since 1910.
Arlis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1910 for girls). Birth data for Arlis is available in 106 out of the 118 years between 1906 and 2023 (105 years for boys and 50 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 Arlis has been given predominantly to boys, with 70.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Arlis were boys.
For boys, Arlis reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 8.3% percentile (ranked #477) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 45 births per million (ranked 8.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arlis ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 19.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arlis reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #544) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 34 births per million (ranked 5.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arlis".
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