Arleta — girls' name
1,030 babies named Arleta in U.S. Social Security records since 1909, with the highest year being 1932. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
23% of everyone ever named Arleta was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Arleta in 1932 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arleta
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,030 babies named Arleta between 1909 and 2023, spanning 115 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arleta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1932, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arleta performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Arleta shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oregon, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kansas and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Arleta in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arleta in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,030 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Arleta at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arleta popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1909
- Peak year (1932)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 115 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
1,030 total births across 115 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1932 with 32 births in a single year.
Arleta by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1930s
- 233 births that decade — 23% of Arleta's all-time total
Arleta decade highlights
- Peak decade 233 births
- Runner-up 209 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1930s was Arleta's strongest decade
233 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Arleta by state
Where Arleta concentrates geographically — total births since 1909
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Oregon | | 42 | 4.1% |
| #2 | Kansas | | 11 | 1.1% |
| #3 | Oklahoma | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #4 | California | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #5 | Iowa | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #6 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.5% |
| #7 | Texas | | 5 | 0.5% |
42 of 1,030 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 7 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Oregon 4.1% of nationwide
- Kansas 1.1% of nationwide
- Oklahoma 0.6% of nationwide
- California 0.5% of nationwide
- Iowa 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 7 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Oregon accounts for 4.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1909–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.