Arlis — #5060 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arlis

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,949 babies named Arlis between 1906 and 2024, spanning 119 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arlis currently holds the #5060 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1931, when 48 babies received it in a single year. Arlis is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 797 additional births since 1910.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arlis performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 388 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Arlis shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 158 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Arlis in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arlis 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 1,949 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.