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How popular is the name Arlene?
Births per year, rank history and how many Arlenes are alive today.
Arlene (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 5927th in 2025 and given to 3 babies. The name peaked in 2015, when 5 babies were given the name, the 4103rd most popular that year. Common short forms of Arlene include Arla.
The Arlene you are most likely to meet is around 10 years old. Half of all Arlenes born in England and Wales are between 9 and 29, and there are at least 90 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 Arlene - on average, only one in every 3,500 such rooms contains a Arlene.
How many babies are named Arlene each year?
Where does Arlene 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 Arlene most popular?
Arlene peaked in 2015, when 5 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Arlene?
At least 90 people named Arlene born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Arlene?
Most living Arlenes are between 9 and 29; the most common age is about 10.
Is Arlene becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.