Arletta
Arletta was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,194 among girls’ names; 2,395 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arletta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arletta?
#10,194 among girls’ names, 2025
Arletta entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,194 in 2025.
58 babies in 1930, the peak
Arletta peaked in 1930, when 58 girls were given it, #956 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,194 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,293 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,407 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,776 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,353 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,815 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,035 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,309 | 3.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,381 | 7.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,618 | 3.0 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #10,529 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,174 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,727 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 10 | #5,986 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,658 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,152 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,476 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,891 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,286 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,035 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,510 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,520 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,177 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,092 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,209 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,295 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,352 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,626 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,820 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,955 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 21 | #2,651 | 10.4 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,292 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,908 | 16.4 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,277 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 34 | #1,835 | 16.9 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,110 | 13.3 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,677 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 43 | #1,490 | 22.9 |
| 1952 | 40 | #1,523 | 21.6 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,019 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,653 | 18.7 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,700 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,598 | 20.0 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,722 | 17.5 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,618 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 21 | #1,827 | 16.1 |
| 1944 | 30 | #1,486 | 22.6 |
| 1943 | 40 | #1,291 | 28.7 |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,279 | 28.9 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,167 | 33.9 |
| 1940 | 47 | #1,046 | 41.1 |
| 1939 | 41 | #1,132 | 37.4 |
| 1938 | 56 | #951 | 50.7 |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,086 | 40.4 |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,081 | 40.4 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,201 | 33.4 |
| 1934 | 44 | #1,047 | 42.1 |
| 1933 | 55 | #915 | 54.6 |
| 1932 | 55 | #955 | 51.5 |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,044 | 42.3 |
| 1930 | 58 | #956 | 51.5 |
| 1929 | 51 | #1,016 | 45.7 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,115 | 39.9 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,140 | 37.7 |
| 1926 | 48 | #1,082 | 40.5 |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,176 | 35.3 |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,125 | 38.4 |
| 1923 | 45 | #1,144 | 37.3 |
| 1922 | 35 | #1,343 | 29.1 |
| 1921 | 42 | #1,187 | 34.1 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,313 | 29.2 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,058 | 41.6 |
| 1918 | 46 | #1,073 | 39.7 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,339 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,409 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 34 | #1,174 | 34.6 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,487 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,677 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,378 | 12.5 |
| 1911 | 15 | #1,172 | 35.9 |
| 1910 | 12 | #1,342 | 30.3 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,781 | 20.2 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,689 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,211 | 34.5 |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,233 | 33.9 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,097 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,259 | 32.7 |
| 1903 | 10 | #1,143 | 38.2 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,328 | 30.3 |
| 1900 | 12 | #1,110 | 40.0 |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,267 | 30.9 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,269 | 29.9 |
| 1896 | 7 | #1,298 | 29.4 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,609 | 21.4 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,245 | 31.4 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,019 | 42.4 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,014 | 43.1 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,106 | 36.8 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,294 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,041 | 41.1 |
| 1883 | 5 | #931 | 44.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arletta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arletta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arletta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arletta, and how old are they?
An estimated 924 Americans named Arletta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (39% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 59 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,136 people named Arletta (1,133 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,105 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,750 babies since 1880, Arletta is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 609 babies (1.5%), again the second 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 Arletta
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 Arletta and names like it
- Compare Arletta and ArletteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArletta peaked in 1930.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arletta since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Arletta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arletta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.