Arlet Girl
How popular is Arlet?
#642 girl name in 2025
450 baby girls were named Arlet in the US in 2025, making it the 642nd most popular girl name.
Arlet popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #642 for girls (▲ 72 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 450 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+1054% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #3,841 in 2015, #1,743 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (493 girls) |
| Highest rank | #603 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1918 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Arlet counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Arlette family of names ranked #261 for girls in 2025 (#321 the year before), with 1,272 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Arlet is most popular
Babies named Arlet per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New Jersey: 0.5 per 1,000 (94 girls)
- Maryland: 0.4 per 1,000 (44 girls)
- New York: 0.4 per 1,000 (164 girls)
- Texas: 0.4 per 1,000 (318 girls)
- California: 0.4 per 1,000 (324 girls)
Arlet by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #4,249 |
| 1920s | 25 | #3,563 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,803 |
| 1980s | 38 | #7,396 |
| 1990s | 114 | #5,418 |
| 2000s | 408 | #2,635 |
| 2010s | 712 | #1,667 |
| 2020s | 2,032 | #603 |
Girl names about as popular as Arlet
Questions
- Is Arlet a boy or girl name?
- Arlet is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Arlet were girls.
- How popular is the name Arlet?
- 450 baby girls were named Arlet in the US in 2025, making it the 642nd most popular girl name.
- When was Arlet most popular?
- Arlet peaked in 2023, when 493 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #603 in 2023.
- How many people are named Arlet?
- 3,351 babies have been named Arlet in the US since 1880. We estimate about 3,296 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 4.
- Where is Arlet most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Arlet was most common in New Jersey, at 0.5 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.