Arlie — #5051 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,696 babies named Arlie between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arlie currently holds the #5051 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1921, when 170 babies received it in a single year. Arlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,522 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,486 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kentucky, which accounts for 606 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by West Virginia and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Arlie in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arlie 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 6,696 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.