Arla

Girls' name · Mid-century revival

Living in the US: ~1,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #4,987 among girls
Births in 2025: 26 2,806 since 1880
Typical age: 68 years, median

Arla popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1888–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Arla was used most in 1930, when 66 babies were given the name. It first clears the SSA reporting threshold in 1888. It reaches the top 1,000 in 10 years of the record.

The 2025 position is #4,987, on 26 births. Over ten years the count has risen 2.9×. Year on year the rank improved by 161.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Arla?

Roughly 1,400 Arlas are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 2,806 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Arla?

Median age among living Arlas: 68. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Arla a mid-century revival name.

Your Arla

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Arla in England and Wales

ONS recorded 82 births named Arla in 2025, ranking it #483. That is 28% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Names similar to Arla

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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