Arlington — #4559 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arlington

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,570 babies named Arlington between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arlington currently holds the #4559 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Arlington is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 108 additional births since 2011.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arlington performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 261 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arlington shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 174 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Arlington in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arlington 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 1,570 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.