Arley — #2054 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arley

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,556 babies named Arley between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arley currently holds the #2054 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 90 babies received it in a single year. Arley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 864 additional births since 1884.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 603 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 468 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Arley in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arley 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 3,556 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.