Arlys
Arlys was last recorded in 1965, when 5 babies were given it; 1,103 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1965 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arlys by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arlys?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,596, in 1965; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 1933, the peak
Arlys peaked in 1933, when 44 girls were given it, #1,053 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 5 | #6,596 | 2.8 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,654 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,553 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,884 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,197 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,296 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,555 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,322 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 10 | #3,922 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,980 | 7.7 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 18 | #2,594 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,929 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,682 | 18.3 |
| 1951 | 33 | #1,666 | 18.3 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,189 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,543 | 21.0 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,620 | 19.4 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,753 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 30 | #1,619 | 19.1 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,342 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 31 | #1,458 | 23.4 |
| 1943 | 25 | #1,706 | 17.9 |
| 1942 | 33 | #1,417 | 24.4 |
| 1941 | 40 | #1,187 | 33.1 |
| 1940 | 29 | #1,408 | 25.4 |
| 1939 | 36 | #1,223 | 32.8 |
| 1938 | 43 | #1,093 | 39.0 |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,161 | 35.7 |
| 1936 | 34 | #1,232 | 32.7 |
| 1935 | 34 | #1,221 | 32.4 |
| 1934 | 44 | #1,048 | 42.1 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,053 | 43.7 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,164 | 35.6 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,288 | 30.1 |
| 1930 | 41 | #1,162 | 36.4 |
| 1929 | 31 | #1,371 | 27.8 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,594 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 27 | #1,588 | 22.6 |
| 1926 | 27 | #1,589 | 22.8 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,625 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 20 | #1,996 | 16.0 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,738 | 9.9 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,491 | 11.7 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,645 | 10.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,634 | 6.7 |
| 1918 | 15 | #2,294 | 13.0 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,122 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arlys a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arlys has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 47 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arlys: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arlys, and how old are they?
An estimated 420 Americans named Arlys and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 79 years old and half are between 74 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 684 people named Arlys (662 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 572 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 Arlys born?
The states with the most babies named Arlys are Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and North Dakota and South Dakota are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 325 | not ranked | 13.4× |
| North Dakota | 98 | not ranked | 14.6× |
| South Dakota | 79 | not ranked | 12.5× |
| Iowa | 71 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Wisconsin | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Arlys is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arlys is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1917 it was given 13.4 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 Arlys 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,698 babies since 1880, Arlys is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 none of their 82 babies recorded by SSA was a Arlys (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 Arlys
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 Arlys and names like it
- Compare Arlys and ArlissBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sArlys peaked in 1933.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arlys since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Arlys.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arlys alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.