Arland
Arland was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,973 among boys’ names; 1,812 Americans have been recorded with it since 1901 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arland?
#8,973 among boys’ names, 2025
Arland rose from #10,764 in 2015 to #8,973 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 3.1 to 4.7 per million.
51 babies in 1935, the peak
Arland peaked in 1935, when 51 boys were given it, #881 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,973 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,050 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,925 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,906 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,892 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,318 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,207 | 6.1 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,194 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 6 | #10,764 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,838 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #12,290 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,901 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,628 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,351 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,868 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,536 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,805 | 4.7 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,991 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,973 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,822 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,003 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,302 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,335 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,157 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,391 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,585 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,847 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,453 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,514 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,722 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,032 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,676 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,081 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,421 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,383 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 15 | #2,033 | 8.6 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,469 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,481 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,313 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,116 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,191 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,243 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,044 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,713 | 10.3 |
| 1958 | 11 | #2,513 | 5.2 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,280 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 19 | #1,827 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | #1,647 | 10.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,959 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,837 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 17 | #1,857 | 8.7 |
| 1951 | 21 | #1,643 | 11.2 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,500 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,275 | 18.0 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,256 | 18.8 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,482 | 13.7 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,512 | 13.5 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,379 | 17.1 |
| 1944 | 34 | #1,138 | 24.9 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,369 | 18.2 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,334 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,188 | 25.2 |
| 1940 | 31 | #1,209 | 26.7 |
| 1939 | 41 | #992 | 37.0 |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,127 | 29.8 |
| 1937 | 42 | #967 | 39.4 |
| 1936 | 36 | #1,070 | 34.7 |
| 1935 | 51 | #881 | 49.0 |
| 1934 | 36 | #1,094 | 34.9 |
| 1933 | 42 | #980 | 42.4 |
| 1932 | 48 | #938 | 46.0 |
| 1931 | 47 | #959 | 45.2 |
| 1930 | 39 | #1,117 | 35.5 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,197 | 31.6 |
| 1928 | 49 | #981 | 44.2 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,373 | 25.7 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,093 | 37.8 |
| 1925 | 42 | #1,074 | 37.6 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,290 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 41 | #1,116 | 37.4 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,074 | 39.5 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,298 | 29.1 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,159 | 35.7 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,626 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,407 | 25.7 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,481 | 24.9 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,178 | 34.8 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,308 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 12 | #1,872 | 18.3 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,682 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,602 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,459 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,121 | 45.4 |
| 1901 | 6 | #950 | 56.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arland has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arland, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Arland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (35% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 43 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 832 people named Arland (32 women and girls, 800 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,023 babies since 1880, Arland is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 20 babies (40%), the second most given that year.
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 Arland
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 Arland and names like it
- Compare Arland and ArlindBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArland peaked in 1935.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arland since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Arland.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arland alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.