Arlana
Arlana was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 537 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,048, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1949, the peak
Arlana peaked in 1949, when 17 girls were given it, #2,412 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #13,048 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,720 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,316 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,503 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,606 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,700 | 3.1 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,761 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,896 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,236 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,240 | 6.7 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 8 | #10,836 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,501 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,336 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,953 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,951 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,826 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,905 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,690 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,790 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,022 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,338 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,566 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,739 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,841 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,793 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,387 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,927 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,098 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,307 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,193 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,568 | 7.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,447 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,984 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,676 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,220 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,377 | 9.6 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,475 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,376 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 8 | #5,998 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,552 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,774 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,073 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,503 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,009 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,294 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,512 | 5.1 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,502 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,650 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,326 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 8 | #4,906 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,452 | 4.5 |
| 1958 | 10 | #3,934 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,401 | 2.9 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,788 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,731 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,699 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,562 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,291 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,057 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,412 | 9.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,364 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,011 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlana, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Arlana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 33 and 60. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 469 people named Arlana (467 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 502 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 166,417 babies since 1880, Arlana is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 149 babies recorded by SSA was a Arlana (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Arlana
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 Arlana and names like it
- Compare Arlana and ArleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlana since 1910.
- The top names of 1949The year the most babies were named Arlana.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Arlana alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.