Arly
Arly is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 8 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,174 among girls’ names and #8,974 among boys’, #9,417 among all names counting both); 895 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arly by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arly?
#7,174 among girls’ names, 2025
Arly rose from #10,989 in 2015 to #7,174 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 9.3 per million.
253 babies in 2003, the peak
Arly peaked in 2003, when 253 babies were given it (246 girls, #950 among girls’ names). The 23 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 9% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,174 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,223 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,686 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,081 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,639 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,257 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,010 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,670 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,049 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,989 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #16,825 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,682 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,171 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,505 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,862 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,776 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,155 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,580 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,520 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,287 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,556 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 246 | #950 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 91 | #1,934 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,428 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 37 | #3,526 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 56 | #2,526 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,837 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,400 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,749 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,619 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arly a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 895 Americans recorded as Arly, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arly: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arly, and how old are they?
An estimated 880 Americans named Arly and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 18 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,015 people named Arly (813 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 798 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Arly rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Arly born?
The states with the most babies named Arly are California, New York and Texas, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 109 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 103 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 55 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Colorado | 15 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 9 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Arly is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arly is most over-represented in New York: since 1925 it was given 1.8 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 girls’ 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 Arly 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,300 babies since 1880, Arly is the fifth most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 559 babies (4.1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Arly
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 Arly and names like it
- Compare Arly and ArelyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArly peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arly since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Arly.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arly alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.