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Arline vs Arliz

American parents have registered 17,626 Arlines since 1880, against 13 Arlizes. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arline against Arliz, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arline Arliz

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 138 years in which either name was published, Arline for 137 years and Arliz for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Arline Arliz
Total US births 17,62613
Most in one year 67713
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 3,80013
Median age today 7911
Peak year 19242014
Best rank 253rd girls8,485th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18832014
Girls / boys 17,590 / 3613 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arlines alive today are over 79; half the Arlizes are over 11. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arline and Arliz.