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Arlita vs Arlo

American parents have registered 25,135 Arlos since 1880, against 216 Arlitas. Arlo is still ahead, with 2,514 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arlita against Arlo, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arlita Arlo

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

Arlo has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1899 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1963, when Arlita had 11 and Arlo had 12.

Side by side

  Arlita Arlo
Total US births 21625,135
Most in one year 122,574
Babies in 2025 under 52,514
Estimated living today 12023,000
Median age today 704
Peak year 19322024
Best rank 2,490th girls146th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked148th
First recorded 19221899
Girls / boys 216 / 0890 / 24,245

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 Arlitas alive today are over 70; half the Arlos are over 4. That is 66 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arlita and Arlo.