Arlington
About 1,701 American babies have been named Arlington since 1880, most of them around 1917. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 790 Arlingtons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arlington boys named Arlington
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,701
- Estimated living today
- 790
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 982nd
- Rank in 2025
- 5,608th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 115 / 1,586
How old the living Arlingtons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,701 babies given the name since 1880, about 790 are alive — 47 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 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.
Notable Arlingtons
- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)American poet
People named Arlington with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arlington is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arlington is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (14.7×), New York (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular boys’ names the year Arlington peaked:
Related names
Arlington 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.