Arlin
Arlin is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 46 boys were given it in 2025 (#13,366 among girls’ names and #2,767 among boys’, #5,478 among all names counting both); 4,884 Americans have been recorded with it since 1910 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,840 Americans named Arlin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 16 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlin?
#2,767 among boys’ names, 2025
Arlin rose from #3,595 in 2015 to #2,767 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 15.7 to 26.9 per million.
85 babies in 1935, the peak
Arlin peaked in 1935, when 85 boys were given it, #641 among boys’ names. The 52 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 61% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,366 | 46 | #2,767 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,354 | 57 | #2,423 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,190 | 40 | #3,057 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,254 | 45 | #2,831 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,073 | 38 | #3,125 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,013 | 38 | #3,027 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,736 | 26 | #4,004 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,217 | 24 | #4,231 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,341 | 20 | #4,754 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,952 | 17 | #5,332 |
Every recorded year (116)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,231 | 30 | #3,595 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,229 | 24 | #4,142 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,419 | 21 | #4,474 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,616 | 25 | #4,010 |
| 2011 | 15 | #7,833 | 17 | #5,211 |
| 2010 | 18 | #6,933 | 21 | #4,526 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,097 | 15 | #5,818 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,581 | 21 | #4,548 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,482 | 18 | #5,005 |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,079 | 15 | #5,539 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,738 | 16 | #5,048 |
| 2004 | 20 | #5,993 | 22 | #4,009 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,316 | 15 | #5,046 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,246 | 14 | #5,146 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,846 | 27 | #3,227 |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,189 | 17 | #4,394 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,920 | 10 | #6,067 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,401 | 16 | #4,209 |
| 1997 | 13 | #6,880 | 10 | #5,666 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,084 | 23 | #3,108 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,084 | 8 | #6,441 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,526 | 14 | #4,299 |
| 1993 | 15 | #5,975 | 11 | #5,025 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,495 | 20 | #3,223 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,660 | 16 | #3,644 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,570 | 14 | #3,979 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,175 | 23 | #2,689 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,445 | 23 | #2,511 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,044 | 9 | #4,587 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,776 | 17 | #2,895 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,993 | 14 | #3,226 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,490 | 8 | #4,575 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,104 | 20 | #2,411 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,518 | 13 | #3,300 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,195 | 10 | #3,874 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 18 | #2,620 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,309 | 17 | #2,676 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 18 | #2,481 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 17 | #2,563 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 14 | #2,833 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 18 | #2,365 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 21 | #2,057 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 18 | #2,220 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 22 | #1,931 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 20 | #2,056 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,057 | 35 | #1,418 |
| 1969 | under 5 | 25 | #1,642 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 35 | #1,285 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 23 | #1,609 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 29 | #1,428 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 36 | #1,274 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 33 | #1,370 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 42 | #1,196 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 39 | #1,243 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 32 | #1,406 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 48 | #1,130 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 44 | #1,172 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 47 | #1,113 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 46 | #1,130 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 57 | #986 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 48 | #1,083 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 30 | #1,382 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 67 | #877 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 52 | #993 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 58 | #918 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 53 | #948 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 51 | #967 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 55 | #932 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 71 | #822 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 51 | #935 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 53 | #860 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 45 | #964 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 69 | #788 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 55 | #888 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 64 | #778 | |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,399 | 70 | #729 |
| 1939 | under 5 | 75 | #686 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 84 | #652 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 56 | #818 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,223 | 68 | #729 |
| 1935 | under 5 | 85 | #641 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 81 | #673 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 81 | #643 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 70 | #746 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 62 | #794 | |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,589 | 57 | #874 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 56 | #889 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 66 | #807 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 55 | #924 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 56 | #895 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,019 | 39 | #1,122 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,018 | 53 | #962 |
| 1923 | under 5 | 50 | #979 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 48 | #1,023 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 36 | #1,199 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 39 | #1,140 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 38 | #1,124 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,861 | 40 | #1,079 |
| 1917 | under 5 | 28 | #1,292 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 34 | #1,121 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 46 | #916 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 28 | #1,073 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 24 | #1,024 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 8 | #1,897 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 6 | #1,545 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 9 | #1,119 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arlin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,884 Americans recorded as Arlin, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arlin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlin, and how old are they?
2,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 4,884 Americans ever recorded as Arlin. The median Arlin alive today is 35 years old; half are between 16 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 3,418 people named Arlin (1,185 women and girls, 2,233 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 226 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 597 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 329 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 431 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 659 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 598 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Arlin born?
The states with the most babies named Arlin are California, Iowa and Texas, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Iowa is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 237 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 115 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 98 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 85 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Minnesota | 67 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Wisconsin | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #1,107 | 0.1× |
| Tennessee | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Arlin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlin is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arlin with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,944 babies since 1880, Arlin is the second most given (27% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 254 babies (20%), the third 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 Arlin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Wallis | 1,198 |
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 Arlin and names like it
- Compare Arlin and ArlenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArlin peaked in 1935.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlin since 1910.
- The top names of 1935The year the most babies were named Arlin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arlin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.