Arlington
Arlington is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 706th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191744 births
- Best rank
- #706in 1884
- Since 1880
- 1,678people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,570 boys have been named Arlington in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 44 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 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 108 girls have also been given it, 6.4% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arlington | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 42 | |
| 1890s | 24 | |
| 1900s | 35 | |
| 1910s | 244 | |
| 1920s | 261 | |
| 1930s | 181 | |
| 1940s | 146 | |
| 1950s | 114 | |
| 1960s | 73 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 67 | |
| 1990s | 62 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 114 | |
| 2020s | 95 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Arlington was the 982nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Arlington
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sumnerpeak 1920
- Wilberpeak 1919
- Juliouspeak 1930
- Mahlonpeak 1919
- Gilespeak 1918
- Julespeak 1928
- Newellpeak 1916
- Aloispeak 1918
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.