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Arlet

Girl · ar-LET · French

Arlet is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 642nd for girls in the US (450 babies).

What does Arlet mean?

French: spelling of Arlette, a medieval Norman name of uncertain root

Arlette, also called Herleva, of Falaise was the mother of William the Conqueror.

Say it
ar-LET

Is Arlet a girl's or a boy's name?

Arlet is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 450 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Arlet in the US?

Rank in 2025
#642among girls
Babies in 2025
450about 1 in 3,600 girls
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 291% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 450 girls in the US were named Arlet, making it the 642nd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,743rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 493 girls. It first appears in the records in 1918.

Half of all the girls named Arlet in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,428 girls in the US were given Arlet or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #144, up from #642 for this spelling alone.

1918Busiest: 493 in 20232025
Arlet in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025450#642
2024393#714
2023493#603
2022390#742
2021191#1,229
2020115#1,743
2019126#1,668
2018101#1,953
2017122#1,738
2016128#1,667
201539#3,841
201441#3,717
201329#4,753
201249#3,313
201147#3,406
201030#4,734
200935#4,268
200832#4,646
200746#3,530
200641#3,733
200553#3,005
200461#2,675
200360#2,635
200233#3,885
200126#4,559
200021#5,307
199919#5,418
199817#5,794
199715#6,158
19966#11,801
199510#8,074
199410#8,116
199314#6,257
19925#13,308
19919#8,580
19909#8,495
19897#9,675
19880–
19877#8,773
19866#9,540
19850–
19848#7,396
19830–
19820–
19815#10,409
19805#10,390
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19675#6,803
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19620–
19610–
19600–
19590–
19580–
19570–
19560–
19550–
19540–
19530–
19520–
19510–
19500–
19490–
19480–
19470–
19460–
19450–
19440–
19430–
19420–
19410–
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19320–
19310–
19300–
19296#4,051
19280–
19270–
19268#3,563
19250–
19240–
19236#4,375
19225#5,007
19210–
19200–
19196#4,249
19186#4,289

Names like Arlet

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Arlet

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