Arlethia
Arlethia was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 243 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlethia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlethia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,442, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1924, the peak
Arlethia peaked in 1924, when 11 girls were given it, #2,984 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #11,442 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,631 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,308 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,821 | 5.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,333 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,034 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,849 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,667 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,296 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,642 | 5.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 10 | #4,213 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,020 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #5,919 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,294 | 2.5 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,554 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,993 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,679 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,945 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,404 | 3.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,280 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,365 | 3.9 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,224 | 4.3 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,699 | 9.6 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,319 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,921 | 5.6 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,082 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,845 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,333 | 5.1 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,461 | 4.9 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,984 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,013 | 4.1 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,483 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,155 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,016 | 4.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,117 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,945 | 5.7 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,215 | 7.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlethia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlethia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlethia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlethia, and how old are they?
An estimated 132 Americans named Arlethia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 55 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 192 people named Arlethia (192 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 147 born in the U.S. The Census count is 31% 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,041 babies since 1880, Arlethia is the second most given (12% of them).
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.
More about Arlethia and names like it
- Compare Arlethia and ArlethaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArlethia peaked in 1924.
- The top names of 1924The year the most babies were named Arlethia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Arlethia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with AMost given first.