Arline — girls' name

What the Data Says About Arline

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,590 babies named Arline between 1883 and 2023, spanning 141 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arline currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1924, when 677 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arline performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 5,829 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arline shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 3,135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Arline in 43 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arline 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 17,590 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.