Arli
Arli was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,517 among girls’ names; 141 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arli by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arli?
#7,517 among girls’ names, 2025
Arli entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,517 in 2025.
17 babies in 2003, the peak
Arli peaked in 2003, when 17 girls were given it, #6,611 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,517 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,998 | 6.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,309 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,777 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,354 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,354 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,593 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,957 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,155 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,171 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | #9,792 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,306 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,699 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,787 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,611 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,334 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,267 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,502 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arli a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arli has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arli: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arli, and how old are they?
An estimated 140 Americans named Arli and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 4 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 212 people named Arli (157 women and girls, 55 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 92 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Arli rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
How common is the spelling Arli?
Arli is a less common spelling of Arlee: SSA has recorded 141 Arli and 1,702 Arlee since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,116 babies since 1880, Arli is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 555 babies (2.5%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Arli
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 Arli and names like it
- Compare Arli and ArleeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArli peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Arli.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arli alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.