Arleny
Arleny was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,516 among girls’ names; 328 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arleny by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arleny?
#7,516 among girls’ names, 2025
Arleny rose from #10,230 in 2015 to #7,516 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 8.7 per million.
18 babies in 2017, the peak
Arleny peaked in 2017, when 18 girls were given it, #6,561 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 78% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,516 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,633 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,680 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,314 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,995 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,337 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,444 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,201 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,561 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,531 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,230 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,786 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,786 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,782 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,283 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,405 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,469 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,007 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,806 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,541 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,378 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,978 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,430 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,077 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,241 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,266 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,273 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,213 | 4.5 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,674 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,623 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,316 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,527 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arleny a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arleny has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arleny: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arleny, and how old are they?
An estimated 325 Americans named Arleny and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 403 people named Arleny (403 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 246 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,725 babies since 1880, Arleny is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 149 babies (9.4%), 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 Arleny
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 Arleny and names like it
- Compare Arleny and ArleneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArleny peaked in 2017.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arleny since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Arleny.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arleny alive today were born 2013-2025.
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