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How popular is the name Arlen?
Births per year, rank history and how many Arlens are alive today.
Arlen (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 763rd in 2025 with 44 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2021, when 57 babies were given the name, the 641st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 898 in 2024 before climbing back to the 763rd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Arlen is one spelling of a name also recorded as Arlan; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Arlen you are most likely to meet is around 4 years old. Half of all Arlens born in England and Wales are between 4 and 14, and there are at least 650 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Arlen - on average, only one in every 467 such rooms contains a Arlen.
How many babies are named Arlen each year?
Includes all spellings: Arlen, Arlan. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Arlen spelling rank?
Where does the Arlan spelling rank?
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 Arlen most popular?
Arlen peaked in 2021, when 62 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Arlen?
At least 650 people named Arlen in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Arlen?
Most living Arlens are between 4 and 14; the most common age is about 4.
Is Arlen becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.