Arliss
The girl's name Arliss has been in the national records since 1917, with 1,529 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2025. About 640 Arlisses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arliss boys named Arliss
Girls and boys called Arliss
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 801 girls and 728 boys in all, and in 2023 the split was 0 to 26.
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
- 1,529
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1933
- Best rank
- 1,050th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 801 / 728
How old the living Arlisses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,529 babies given the name since 1917, about 640 are alive — 42 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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 Arlisss
- Arliss Howard (born 1954)American actor, screenwriter and film director
People named Arliss with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arliss is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arliss is most concentrated in Minnesota (29.6×), Wisconsin (8.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1933
The most popular girls’ names the year Arliss peaked:
Related names
Arliss 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.