Arlis
Arlis is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 19 births. Its best rank was 941st, in 1931.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 190.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 193148 births
- Best rank
- #941in 1931
- Since 1906
- 2,746people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,949 boys have been named Arlis in the United States since 1906, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1931, with 48 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1930s alone account for 20%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Arlis is used for both sexes: 29% of its bearers are girls (797), most of them born around 1935.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arlis | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 147 | |
| 1920s | 348 | |
| 1930s | 388 | |
| 1940s | 314 | |
| 1950s | 194 | |
| 1960s | 126 | |
| 1970s | 79 | |
| 1980s | 56 | |
| 1990s | 57 | |
| 2000s | 48 | |
| 2010s | 110 | |
| 2020s | 77 |
In 1931, its biggest year
Arlis was the 941st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1931 were Robert, James, John, William and Richard. See all of 1931.
Names that rose and fell with Arlis
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arlonpeak 1933
- Arlandpeak 1935
- Arlinpeak 1935
- Doyalpeak 1929
- Durwoodpeak 1943
- Merlinpeak 1927
- Dormanpeak 1928
- Lavernpeak 1924
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.