Arliss — unisex name

What the Data Says About Arliss

The Social Security Administration has registered 801 babies named Arliss between 1919 and 1994, spanning 76 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arliss currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1933, when 44 babies received it in a single year. Arliss is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 705 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arliss performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Arliss shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Wisconsin and Iowa. In total, SSA state-level files list Arliss in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arliss 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 801 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.