How Many People Are Named Arlo?
people named Arlo are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 15,031 people in the US has this name
Based on 25,135 babies named Arlo in Social Security records from 1899 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
2,574 births
Trend
Rising (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Meaning uncertain. It was perhaps inspired by the fictional place name Arlo Hill from the poem 'The Faerie Queene' (1590) by Edmund Spenser. Spenser probably got Arlo by altering the real Irish place name Aherlow, which is Gaelic meaning "between two highlands".
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Arlo, 3.8% were girls and 96.2% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1910s: 0% of the babies were girls then and 3.9% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Arlo alive today is about 8 years old, and 94% are under 30. Half of them were between 2 and 8 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Arlo first appears in the records in 1899 and was given most often in 2024, to 2,574 babies. In 2025, 2,514 babies got the name. Over the last ten years, the number each year has been rising.
Babies given the name each year, 1899 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Arlo has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #146, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #148.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #148 |
| Best rank | #146 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #169 in the 2020s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Arlo alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Arlo were born in California than in any other state: about 2,386 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Arlo was given 4.2 times as often in Vermont, 3.3 times in Iowa and 3.2 times in South Dakota.
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