How Many People Are Named Arleen?

7,522

people named Arleen are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 45,438 people in the US has this name

Based on 12,617 babies named Arleen in Social Security records from 1898 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#2,919

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,631

See the top 100

Peak Year

1939

415 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: ahr-LEEN
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of ARLINE.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Arleen in English. Counting Arleen and these spellings together, about 79,731 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Arleen in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Arleen alive today is about 58 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 44 and 76 in 2025.

Under 30 1,431
19%
30 to 59 1,172
15.6%
60 and over 4,919
65.4%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Arleen first appears in the records in 1898 and was given most often in 1939, to 415 babies. In 2025, 19 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1898 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Arleen has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #303, in 1939. In 2025 it ranked #6,144.

Girls
Rank in 2025#6,144
Best rank#303 (1939)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#476 in the 1940s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Arleen alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Arleen were born in California than in any other state: about 1,469 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Arleen was given 4.8 times as often in Hawaii, 2.8 times in Wisconsin and 2.7 times in California.

California 1,469
New York 1,295
Texas 446
New Jersey 379
Pennsylvania 342
Illinois 209
Massachusetts 175
Michigan 161
Ohio 158
Louisiana 104
Hawaii 92
Wisconsin 87
Florida 79
Virginia 63
Minnesota 45
Connecticut 41
North Carolina 39
Colorado 30
Washington 28
New Mexico 27
Maryland 20
Indiana 20
Georgia 19
Alabama 18
Missouri 17
Mississippi 15
Rhode Island 12
Arizona 10
South Carolina 10
Utah 6
Iowa 4
Oregon 3
Idaho 2
North Dakota 2
South Dakota 1
Nebraska 1

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