Arleen vs Arletta

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Arleen Arletta

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 138 years in which either name was published, Arleen for 120 years and Arletta for 18 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

• 1883–1898 Arletta ahead
• 1899 Arleen ahead
• 1900 Arletta ahead
• 1901 Arleen ahead
• 1902–1907 Arletta ahead
• 1908–2025 Arleen ahead

Side by side

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arlettas alive today are over 70; half the Arleens are over 65. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Arleen Hawaii (4.8×), Wisconsin (3.1×), New York (2.9×)
• Arletta Wisconsin (8.4×), Illinois (3.4×), Pennsylvania (3.3×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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