Arlow
Arlow is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 38 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,195 among girls’ names and #3,132 among boys’, #5,835 among all names counting both); 463 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlow by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlow?
#3,132 among boys’ names, 2025
Arlow entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #3,132 in 2025.
59 babies in 2022, the peak
Arlow peaked in 2022, when 59 babies were given it (42 boys, #2,965 among boys’ names). The 47 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,195 | 38 | #3,132 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,634 | 36 | #3,273 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,629 | |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,742 | 42 | #2,965 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,673 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,598 | 16 | #5,468 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,009 | 16 | #5,568 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 23 | #4,359 | |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,041 | 15 | #5,815 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,907 | 19 | #4,958 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,723 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #10,809 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #10,830 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,592 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 7 | #2,867 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #3,700 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 6 | #3,382 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,028 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,183 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,237 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 7 | #3,430 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 5 | #4,265 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 8 | #3,265 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,359 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 12 | #2,463 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #3,756 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 5 | #4,213 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,233 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 6 | #2,941 |
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 Arlow a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 463 Americans recorded as Arlow, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arlow: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlow, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Arlow and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 8. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 210 people named Arlow (45 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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).
More about Arlow and names like it
- The most given names of the 2020sArlow peaked in 2022.
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- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Arlow.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arlow alive today were born 2013-2025.
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