Arlington
Arlington is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 16 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,050 among girls’ names and #5,626 among boys’, #9,414 among all names counting both); 1,701 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlington by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlington?
#5,626 among boys’ names, 2025
Arlington rose from #6,696 in 2015 to #5,626 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 9.4 per million.
44 babies in 1917, the peak
Arlington peaked in 1917, when 44 boys were given it, #982 among boys’ names. The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,626 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,576 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #4,351 | 14.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,896 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,047 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,705 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,694 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,928 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,307 | 9.2 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,380 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #6,696 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,590 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,571 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,087 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,677 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,383 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,629 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,464 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,593 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,486 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,713 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,567 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,469 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,189 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,188 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,205 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,029 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #8,870 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,764 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,328 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,980 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,257 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,486 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,478 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,061 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,608 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,947 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 12 | #3,499 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,170 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,821 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,614 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,734 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,353 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,573 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,538 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,036 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,677 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,255 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,449 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,001 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #3,974 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,090 | 8.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,057 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,331 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,282 | 6.3 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,663 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,682 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,636 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,028 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,499 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,267 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,148 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 10 | #2,599 | 4.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,540 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,882 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,374 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,941 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,127 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,448 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 15 | #1,994 | 8.2 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,887 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 8 | #2,576 | 5.9 |
| 1944 | 13 | #1,992 | 9.5 |
| 1943 | 27 | #1,342 | 18.9 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,151 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,912 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,576 | 16.4 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,882 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,744 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 24 | #1,374 | 22.5 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,459 | 8.7 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,709 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 19 | #1,610 | 18.4 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,832 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,465 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,335 | 26.0 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,824 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,210 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 16 | #1,963 | 14.4 |
| 1927 | 26 | #1,472 | 23.1 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,609 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,333 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,417 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,505 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,196 | 33.1 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,361 | 27.2 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,227 | 32.9 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,352 | 28.6 |
| 1918 | 36 | #1,153 | 35.5 |
| 1917 | 44 | #982 | 47.5 |
| 1916 | 32 | #1,157 | 36.0 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,309 | 30.6 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,189 | 36.7 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,112 | 41.0 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,270 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,546 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 13 | #864 | 66.9 |
| 1908 | 9 | #950 | 58.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,241 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 8 | #880 | 62.4 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,014 | 48.9 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,051 | 46.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,006 | 48.9 |
| 1896 | 8 | #826 | 66.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,087 | 43.2 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,008 | 45.0 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,042 | 41.4 |
| 1887 | 5 | #936 | 49.3 |
| 1886 | 7 | #763 | 63.2 |
| 1884 | 8 | #706 | 69.9 |
| 1883 | 6 | #805 | 57.3 |
| 1881 | 5 | #873 | 49.6 |
| 1880 | 6 | #818 | 54.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlington a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,701 Americans recorded as Arlington, 7% are girls and 93% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arlington: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlington, and how old are they?
An estimated 781 Americans named Arlington and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 8 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 760 people named Arlington (99 women and girls, 661 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 708 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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 Arlington born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 174 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 44 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Arlington is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlington is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Arlington with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arlington
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 Arlington and names like it
- Compare Arlington and WoodsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sArlington peaked in 1917.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlington since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Arlington.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arlington alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.