Arlow — #3274 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arlow

The Social Security Administration has registered 328 babies named Arlow between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arlow currently holds the #3274 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Arlow is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arlow performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 144 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arlow shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Arlow in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arlow 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 328 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.