Arlynn
Arlynn was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,518 among girls’ names; 661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlynn?
#7,518 among girls’ names, 2025
Arlynn fell from #7,312 in 2015 to #7,518 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 8.7 per million.
25 babies in 2018, the peak
Arlynn peaked in 2018, when 25 girls were given it, #5,171 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,518 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,015 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,567 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,012 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,720 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,345 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,183 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,171 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,529 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,932 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,312 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,524 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,178 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,525 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,472 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,295 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,368 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,831 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 16 | #7,772 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,776 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,379 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #9,979 | 5.4 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,237 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,184 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,316 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,956 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,715 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,920 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,909 | 3.4 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,320 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,950 | 3.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,542 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,379 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,869 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,497 | 4.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,414 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,059 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,595 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,828 | 2.6 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,653 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,260 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,196 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,179 | 4.5 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,681 | 3.6 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,381 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,494 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,187 | 6.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,708 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,253 | 6.2 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,707 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,506 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 9 | #2,969 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,289 | 4.6 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,722 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,067 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,762 | 4.3 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,158 | 4.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,121 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 661 Americans recorded as Arlynn, 91% are girls and 9% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arlynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Arlynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 640 people named Arlynn (540 women and girls, 100 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 477 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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).
How common is the spelling Arlynn?
Arlynn is a less common spelling of Arlyn: SSA has recorded 661 Arlynn and 4,525 Arlyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 22,063 babies since 1880, Arlynn is the sixth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 153 babies (9.2%), the fifth 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 Arlynn
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.
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