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Arlee

Arlee is a girl's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 3,329th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,172nd. About 910 Arlees are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Arlee boys named Arlee

Girls and boys called Arlee

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,267 girls and 435 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 34 to 0.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 25 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,702
Estimated living today
910
Median age today
14
Peak year
2023
Best rank
3,329th
Rank in 2025
4,172nd
First recorded
1907
Girls / boys
1,267 / 435

How old the living Arlees are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,702 babies given the name since 1907, about 910 are alive — 54 in every hundred. Roughly 500 of them are children and 190 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Arlee is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arlee is most concentrated in Texas (7.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular girls’ names the year Arlee peaked:

All the names of 2023

Arlee elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Arlee 25 2,734th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Arlee against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.