Arliss
Arliss was last recorded in 2025, when 23 babies were given it; 1,529 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 2025 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arliss by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arliss?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,621, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
68 babies in 1933, the peak
Arliss peaked in 1933, when 68 babies were given it (44 girls, #1,052 among girls’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 23 | #4,409 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 21 | #4,713 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 26 | #4,117 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 16 | #5,648 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 15 | #5,786 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 17 | #5,246 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 11 | #7,208 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,656 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,351 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 9 | #8,196 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #9,646 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #10,902 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 9 | #8,364 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 5 | #12,179 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 6 | #10,219 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,462 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,475 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #9,713 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 10 | #5,667 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,621 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #5,780 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #6,785 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 5 | #6,373 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,336 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,311 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,839 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #5,895 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #4,832 | |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,067 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,250 | |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,845 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,068 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,883 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,431 | 9 | #2,879 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,059 | 6 | #3,637 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,554 | 15 | #2,097 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,500 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,083 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,680 | 7 | #3,186 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,118 | 10 | #2,541 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,380 | 7 | #3,105 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,733 | 9 | #2,671 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,782 | 8 | #2,781 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,007 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,976 | 7 | #3,019 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,909 | 5 | #3,750 |
| 1946 | 15 | #2,485 | 8 | #2,699 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,923 | 15 | #1,776 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,208 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,950 | 9 | #2,568 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,983 | 16 | #1,802 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,538 | 13 | #2,002 |
| 1940 | 17 | #1,964 | 7 | #2,891 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,737 | 12 | #2,063 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,654 | 19 | #1,564 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,633 | 9 | #2,488 |
| 1936 | 43 | #1,064 | 15 | #1,805 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,270 | 20 | #1,544 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,411 | 24 | #1,387 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,052 | 24 | #1,362 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,163 | 24 | #1,429 |
| 1931 | 33 | #1,259 | 15 | #1,931 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,503 | 25 | #1,463 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,710 | 9 | #2,775 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,287 | 12 | #2,398 |
| 1927 | 18 | #2,099 | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,672 | 9 | #2,916 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,610 | 7 | #3,429 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,315 | 11 | #2,653 |
| 1923 | 19 | #2,026 | 13 | #2,340 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,837 | 12 | #2,495 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,480 | 8 | #3,227 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,710 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,845 | 5 | #4,188 |
| 1917 | under 5 | 8 | #2,967 |
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 Arliss a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,529 Americans recorded as Arliss, 52% are girls and 48% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arliss: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arliss, and how old are they?
An estimated 623 Americans named Arliss and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 10 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 823 people named Arliss (461 women and girls, 362 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 673 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,805 babies since 1880, Arliss is the most given (40% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 35 babies (66%), again the most given.
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 Arliss
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Marlyn | 9,112 |
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 Arliss and names like it
- Compare Arliss and ArlysBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArliss peaked in 1933.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arliss since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Arliss.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arliss alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.