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How popular is the name Arla?
Births per year, rank history and how many Arlas are alive today.
Arla (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 483rd in 2025 with 82 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2021, when 140 babies were given the name, the 339th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Arla you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Arlas born in England and Wales are between 3 and 8, and there are at least 1,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Arla - on average, only one in every 287 such rooms contains a Arla.
How many babies are named Arla each year?
Where does Arla rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Arla most popular?
Arla peaked in 2021, when 140 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Arla?
At least 1,100 people named Arla born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Arla?
Most living Arlas are between 3 and 8; the most common age is about 4.
Is Arla becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.