Arlyn — #3512 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Arlyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,308 babies named Arlyn between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arlyn currently holds the #3512 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 59 babies received it in a single year. Arlyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,165 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arlyn performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 491 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Arlyn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 471 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Arlyn in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arlyn 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 2,308 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.