girls:
801 births since 1919
#4915 (14th percentile)
boys:
683 births since 1917
#3904 (15th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1917
#6261 (19th percentile)
The name Arliss is the #6,261 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,484 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 19.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,915 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 801 births since 1919. For boys, it ranks #3,904 (14.8% percentile) for all time with 683 births since 1917.
Arliss first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1919 for girls). Birth data for Arliss is available in 73 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (65 years for boys and 45 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 Arliss is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Arliss were boys.
For girls, Arliss reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 6.8% percentile (ranked #534) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 42 births per million (ranked 6.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
For boys, Arliss reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 3.8% percentile (ranked #505) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 24 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arliss ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 58.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arliss".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Arliss is pronounced as AHR-lihs, which has 2 syllables.
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