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Arlys

About 1,103 American babies have been named Arlys since 1917, most of them around 1933. It has not appeared in the national data since 1965. About 440 Arlyses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

girls named Arlys

By the numbers

Total US births
1,103
Estimated living today
440
Median age today
78
Peak year
1933
Best rank
1,050th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1917

How old the living Arlyses 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 1,103 babies given the name since 1917, about 440 are alive — 40 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 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 Arlys is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Arlys is most concentrated in North Dakota (48.4×), South Dakota (39.1×), Minnesota (29.4×), Iowa (8.9×).

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

Names of 1933

The most popular girls’ names the year Arlys peaked:

All the names of 1933

Related names

Arlys 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.