How rare is the name Arlo?

9,420 people in the United States have the first name Arlo, about 1 in 32,063. It ranks #2,564 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

ARLO

#2,564

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
9,420
About
1 in 32,063
This common or more
80.2%
Who bears it

Of the 9,420 people named Arlo, 76.3% reported their origin as White, 13% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.4% as two or more races. 95.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Arlo peaked in 2024, when 2,574 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18992025
Peak year
2024
Births that year
2,574
In 2025*
2,514 ▼2%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 25,135 babies have been given the name since 1899. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Arlo by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #300. The largest share of babies named Arlo, 80%, were born in 2013 or later.

1890s#3,9395
1900s#3,02035
1910s#1,620477
1920s#1,586731
1930s#1,501700
1940s#2,250422
1950s#3,294282
1960s#5,490134
1970s#3,531376
1980s#5,446254
1990s#7,803211
2000s#4,283700
2010s#8697,122
2020s#30013,686
Before 19010.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–274.2%
Silent Generation 1928–454.6%
Baby boom 1946–642%
Generation X 1965–801.9%
Millennials 1981–961.4%
Generation Z 1997–125.9%
2013 and later80%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Arlo is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Arlo has been most common in Oregon (2.9×), Colorado (2.8×), and Minnesota (2.8×), and least common in Mississippi (0.19×).

21,306 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Arlo

#2,562 Jae · 9,440#2,563 Lainey · 9,421#2,565 Lennox · 9,407#2,566 Jadon · 9,406

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Arlo, most common first.

#7,476 Arla · 2,039#12,307 Arly · 1,015#37,052 Arli · 212#37,262 Arlow · 210#41,400 Arloa · 177#43,502 Arle · 162

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