Arlon
Arlon was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,627 among boys’ names; 1,472 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlon?
#5,627 among boys’ names, 2025
Arlon rose from #12,222 in 2015 to #5,627 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 9.4 per million.
38 babies in 1933, the peak
Arlon peaked in 1933, when 38 boys were given it, #1,052 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,627 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,290 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,927 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 15 | #5,897 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,220 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #10,900 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,204 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,717 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #10,853 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,222 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (95)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #9,720 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,293 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,198 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,903 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,630 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,988 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,160 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,541 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,015 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,030 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,765 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,506 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,658 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 8 | #5,219 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,251 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,587 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,576 | 4.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,675 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,525 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,964 | 3.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,103 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,455 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,516 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,958 | 7.6 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,237 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,986 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,678 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,256 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 6 | #3,967 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,319 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,143 | 8.0 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,046 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,482 | 5.9 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,416 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,680 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,193 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 18 | #1,954 | 8.5 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,045 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 25 | #1,590 | 11.7 |
| 1958 | 22 | #1,679 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,716 | 10.2 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,018 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 20 | #1,725 | 9.7 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,960 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,591 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 21 | #1,666 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,522 | 12.7 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,882 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,583 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,821 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 24 | #1,519 | 13.1 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,604 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,180 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 18 | #1,632 | 13.2 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,106 | 26.6 |
| 1942 | 20 | #1,587 | 14.5 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,412 | 18.7 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,401 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,496 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,364 | 21.6 |
| 1937 | 33 | #1,149 | 30.9 |
| 1936 | 30 | #1,206 | 28.9 |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,357 | 24.0 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,426 | 22.3 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,052 | 38.3 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,158 | 32.6 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,129 | 34.6 |
| 1930 | 17 | #1,825 | 15.5 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,445 | 23.2 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,415 | 24.4 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,603 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 22 | #1,610 | 19.8 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,305 | 27.8 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,728 | 18.5 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,506 | 22.8 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,830 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,551 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 30 | #1,324 | 28.2 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,627 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,266 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,903 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 16 | #1,857 | 18.0 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,100 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,281 | 13.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,565 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 95 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlon, and how old are they?
An estimated 650 Americans named Arlon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 34 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 745 people named Arlon (23 women and girls, 722 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 712 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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 Arlon born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 142 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 25 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Arlon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlon is most over-represented in Texas: since 1912 it was given 1.5 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 Arlon with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 17,944 babies since 1880, Arlon is the fourth most given (8.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 254 babies (6.3%), again the fourth 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 Arlon
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 Arlon and names like it
- Compare Arlon and ArlenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArlon peaked in 1933.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlon since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Arlon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arlon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.