Arlyne
Arlyne was last recorded in 2018, when 12 babies were given it; 1,469 Americans have been recorded with it between 1911 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlyne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlyne?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #8,671, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1921, the peak
Arlyne peaked in 1921, when 67 girls were given it, #909 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 12 | #8,671 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,866 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,534 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,952 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,816 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,172 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,677 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,863 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,873 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,608 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 6 | #15,348 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,701 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,788 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,751 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,563 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,429 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,271 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,561 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,214 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,221 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,658 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,919 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,860 | 3.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,949 | 3.3 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,058 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,670 | 3.6 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,594 | 2.8 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,892 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,455 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,652 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,923 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,131 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,335 | 6.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,789 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,179 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,613 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 12 | #3,207 | 6.5 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,113 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 18 | #2,345 | 10.5 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,855 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 20 | #2,191 | 11.8 |
| 1947 | 23 | #2,045 | 13.0 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,725 | 17.2 |
| 1945 | 18 | #1,995 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,771 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,951 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,558 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 23 | #1,652 | 19.0 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,685 | 19.2 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,589 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,512 | 22.7 |
| 1937 | 29 | #1,359 | 27.3 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,231 | 32.7 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,271 | 30.5 |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,100 | 39.3 |
| 1933 | 33 | #1,246 | 32.7 |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,117 | 38.4 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,227 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,291 | 30.2 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,600 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 39 | #1,224 | 33.8 |
| 1927 | 40 | #1,235 | 33.5 |
| 1926 | 38 | #1,265 | 32.1 |
| 1925 | 37 | #1,299 | 30.4 |
| 1924 | 40 | #1,261 | 32.0 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,111 | 39.0 |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,234 | 33.3 |
| 1921 | 67 | #909 | 54.3 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,174 | 35.0 |
| 1919 | 38 | #1,218 | 33.6 |
| 1918 | 43 | #1,130 | 37.1 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,433 | 25.0 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,248 | 31.6 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,625 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,488 | 24.9 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,557 | 11.2 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,166 | 14.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,968 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlyne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlyne has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 78 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlyne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlyne, and how old are they?
An estimated 481 Americans named Arlyne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (33% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 24 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 752 people named Arlyne (750 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 617 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above 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).
Where are babies named Arlyne born?
The states with the most babies named Arlyne are New York, Wisconsin and California, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 183 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 49 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 38 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 33 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Connecticut | 7 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Arlyne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlyne is most over-represented in New York: since 1911 it was given 1.4 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 Arlyne with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Arlyne?
Arlyne is a less common spelling of Arline: SSA has recorded 1,469 Arlyne and 17,626 Arline since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 166,725 babies since 1880, Arlyne is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 149 babies recorded by SSA was a Arlyne (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Arlyne
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 Arlyne and names like it
- Compare Arlyne and ArlineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArlyne peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlyne since 1910.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Arlyne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arlyne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.