Arlet
Arlet was given to 450 girls in 2025, #642 among girls’ names; 3,351 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,290 Americans named Arlet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlet?
#642 among girls’ names, 2025
Arlet rose from #3,851 in 2015 to #642 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.02 to 0.28 per 1,000.
493 babies in 2023, the peak
Arlet peaked in 2023, when 493 girls were given it, #603 among girls’ names. The 450 births of 2025 are 91% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 450 | #642 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 393 | #714 | 0.24 |
| 2023 | 493 | #603 | 0.31 |
| 2022 | 390 | #742 | 0.24 |
| 2021 | 191 | #1,229 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 115 | #1,744 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,670 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,955 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 122 | #1,738 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,671 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,851 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,722 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,764 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,322 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 47 | #3,412 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,750 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,278 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,657 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,538 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,738 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,011 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,676 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,636 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,895 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,570 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,328 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,440 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,826 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,199 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,118 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,174 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,292 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,460 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,751 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,630 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,451 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,528 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,499 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,870 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,081 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,594 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,284 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlet has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 49 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arlet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlet, and how old are they?
3,290 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,351 Americans ever recorded as Arlet. The median Arlet alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,728 people named Arlet (1,669 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,298 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 94 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 579 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,600 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Arlet born?
The states with the most babies named Arlet are Texas, California and New York, with 44% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #450 | 1.5× |
| California | 73 | #459 | 1.6× |
| New York | 28 | #590 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 26 | #654 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 21 | #513 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 18 | #584 | 0.7× |
| New Jersey | 16 | #475 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #620 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 14 | #408 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 12 | #755 | 0.6× |
Where Arlet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlet is most over-represented in California: since 1918 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arlet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,761 babies since 1880, Arlet is the most given (70% of them). In 2025 it was given to 450 of their 672 babies (67%), again the 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 Arlet
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 Arlet and names like it
- Compare Arlet and ArlettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sArlet peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlet since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Arlet.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arlet alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.