How Many People Are Named Arline?
people named Arline are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 90,371 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,626 babies named Arline in Social Security records from 1883 to 2023, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
677 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Meaning unknown, possibly invented by Michael William Balfe for the main character in his opera 'The Bohemian Girl' (1843).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Arline in English. Counting Arline and these spellings together, about 79,731 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Arline in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Arline alive today is about 71 years old, and 79% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 64 and 87 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Arline first appears in the records in 1883 and was given most often in 1924, to 677 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2023.
Babies given the name each year, 1883 to 2023
🏆 Rank History
Arline has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #248, in 1936.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #248 (1936) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #272 in the 1920s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Arline alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Arline were born in New York than in any other state: about 746 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Arline was given 5 times as often in Maine, 4.5 times in New Hampshire and 4.1 times in Connecticut.
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