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Arlo-James

Gender
Boy
Say it
AR-loh-JAYMZ
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#669 for boys

Arlo-James is a boys' name of Modern origin, meaning “Arlo + supplanter”. In 2025 it ranked 669th for boys in the UK (60 babies).

What does Arlo-James mean?

Modern: combination of Arlo and James

“Arlo + supplanter”

Is Arlo-James a girl's or a boy's name?

Arlo-James is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 60 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Arlo-James in the UK?

Rank in 2025
669th among boys
Babies in 2025
60 about 1 in 5,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fast up 223% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 60 boys in the UK were named Arlo-James, making it the 669th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,206th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 64 boys.

Half of all the boys named Arlo-James in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among boys in 2025, it was 639th in England and Wales and 762nd in Scotland.

2016Busiest: 64 in 20242025
Arlo-James in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202560#669
202464#650
202344#816
202243#813
202136#931
202024#1,206
201918#1,479
201810#2,234
201715#1,738
20167#2,947

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Arlo-James: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/arlo-james, updated 20 October 2026.