Arilyn
Arilyn was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,192 among girls’ names; 428 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arilyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arilyn?
#10,192 among girls’ names, 2025
Arilyn fell from #5,301 in 2015 to #10,192 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 5.6 per million.
29 babies in 2014, the peak
Arilyn peaked in 2014, when 29 girls were given it, #4,779 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,192 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,498 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,528 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,478 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,246 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,256 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,455 | 13.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,276 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,310 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,011 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,301 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,779 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,153 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,273 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,832 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,201 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,774 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,106 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,577 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,979 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,949 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,520 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,104 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,678 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,182 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,593 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,425 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,950 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,601 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arilyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arilyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arilyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arilyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 425 Americans named Arilyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 349 people named Arilyn (346 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 364 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,461 babies since 1880, Arilyn is the sixth most given (4.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 154 babies (5.8%), again the sixth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arilyn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arilyn and names like it
- Compare Arilyn and ArlynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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