Arley

boys’ name · 80%girls’ name · 20%ComebackCompare

Arley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 73 births. Its best rank was 646th, in 1885.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 730.00% of boys
Peak year: 201290 births
Best rank: #646in 1885
Since 1885: 4,420people given the name

Babies named Arley, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

3,556 boys have been named Arley in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2012, with 90 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 32 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Arley is used for both sexes: 20% of its bearers are girls (864), most of them born around 2021.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Arley
1880s	20
1890s	68
1900s	70
1910s	318
1920s	520
1930s	391
1940s	320
1950s	217
1960s	136
1970s	92
1980s	134
1990s	180
2000s	139
2010s	603
2020s	348

In 2012, its biggest year

Arley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2012 were Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah and William. See all of 2012.

Names that rose and fell with Arley

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.