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How popular is the name Arley?
Births per year, rank history and how many Arleys are alive today.
Arley (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 462nd in 2025 with 84 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2023, when 90 babies were given the name, the 439th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 560 in 2024 before climbing back to the 462nd place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Arley is one spelling of a name also recorded as Arlee, Arli and Arlie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Arley you are most likely to meet is around 2 years old. Half of all Arleys born in England and Wales are between 3 and 11, and there are at least 1,200 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 Arley - on average, only one in every 253 such rooms contains a Arley.
How many babies are named Arley each year?
Includes all spellings: Arley, Arlee, Arli, Arlie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Arley spelling rank?
Where does the Arlee spelling rank?
Where does the Arli spelling rank?
Where does the Arlie 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 Arley most popular?
Arley peaked in 2024, when 139 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Arley?
At least 1,200 people named Arley in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Arley?
Most living Arleys are between 3 and 11; the most common age is about 2.
Is Arley becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.