Arleth
Arleth was given to 1,156 girls in 2025, #269 among girls’ names; 6,851 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,800 Americans named Arleth and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 2 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arleth by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arleth?
#269 among girls’ names, 2025
Arleth rose from #1,796 in 2015 to #269 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.06 to 0.72 per 1,000.
1,162 babies in 2025, the peak
Arleth peaked in 2025, when 1,162 babies were given it (1,156 girls, #269 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 719 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,156 | #269 | 0.72 |
| 2024 | 719 | #428 | 0.44 |
| 2023 | 536 | #559 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 462 | #638 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 270 | #962 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 187 | #1,225 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 218 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 237 | #1,071 | 0.14 |
| 2017 | 219 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 256 | #1,034 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 116 | #1,796 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 103 | #1,942 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,004 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 103 | #1,919 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 144 | #1,547 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 209 | #1,199 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,776 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 155 | #1,490 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 229 | #1,097 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 314 | #820 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 162 | #1,314 | 0.09 |
| 2003 | 139 | #1,423 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 158 | #1,251 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 115 | #1,599 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 104 | #1,687 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,309 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,378 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 46 | #2,697 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,302 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,604 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,626 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,624 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arleth a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arleth has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Arleth: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arleth, and how old are they?
6,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,851 Americans ever recorded as Arleth. The median Arleth alive today is 7 years old; half are between 2 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 2,845 people named Arleth (2,829 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,531 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 39 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,560 |
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 Arleth born?
The states with the most babies named Arleth are Texas, California and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 233 | #135 | 2.3× |
| California | 149 | #226 | 1.5× |
| New York | 107 | #148 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 56 | #138 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 55 | #195 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 48 | #219 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 46 | #405 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 36 | #296 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 32 | #256 | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 31 | #159 | 0.6× |
Where Arleth is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arleth is most over-represented in Texas: since 1991 it was given 2.3 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 Arleth with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arleth
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 Arleth and names like it
- Compare Arleth and ArlettBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sArleth peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arleth since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Arleth.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arleth alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.