Arleth
Feminine
Arleth is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,840 girls against 11 boys since 1880.
Arleth belongs to a family of names that reached the Americas by way of French Arlette, and it wears the -th ending shared by Lizeth, Yaneth and Marleth — an ending that spread widely through Spanish-speaking households. Two syllables, six letters, the stress landing on the second: ar-LETH. It is strongest in Texas, California and New York, and it has been climbing steadily rather than arriving all at once.
How old is the name Arleth?
Arleth first appears in US birth records in 1991 — 34 years ago. The typical Arleth is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,800 people named Arleth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Arleth most popular?
Arleth peaked in 2025, reaching #269 nationally. Today it ranks #269, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Arlette to Arleth
The story of Arleth
The line behind Arleth runs through Arlette, a French feminine name long associated with Herleva, the eleventh-century Norman woman remembered as the mother of William the Conqueror and called Arlette or Arletta by later chroniclers. Arlette traveled into Spanish and Portuguese as Arlet and Arlete, and in Mexico and Central America it met a strong local habit of ending girls' names in -th — the pattern that also gives Lizeth, Yaneth and Marleth, borrowed from the tail of Elizabeth. Arleth is the meeting point of those two things: an old French name and a modern Latin American spelling convention. Its American record reflects that, concentrated in the states with the deepest Mexican-American communities.
Meaningscholars disagree
Traced through French Arlette to a Germanic name read as containing an element meaning "army"
Arlette is a French diminutive generally connected to the older Norman name Herleva, whose parts have been read as Germanic elements for "army" and "heir" or "legacy" — but that reading is argued rather than agreed, and some treat Arlette simply as an affectionate short form with no recoverable sense of its own. For the spelling Arleth specifically, no separate meaning is documented; what is documented is the family it sits in.
How the name formed
- Arlette
- Arlet
- Arleth
Related forms: Arlette · Arlet · Arlete · Arletta · Herleva
Pronouncing Arleth
ar-LETH
Stress on the second syllable. In Spanish-speaking families the final -th is usually said as a plain t: ar-LET. English speakers more often give it the th of "with". Both are current, and neither needs correcting.
Nicknames for Arleth
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1991
- Most girls named
- 20251,156 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #269reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +60.8%1,156 in 2025, from 719
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Arleth in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Arlette in French — same name
- Arlet in Spanish — spelling variant
- Arlete in Portuguese — related form
- Arletta in Italian — related form
- Herleva in Old Norman — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, New York.
Arleths among us
people named Arleth are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 1,390 born in 2025 was named Arleth
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kamryn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Arleth's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kamryn climbed just as high around 2008, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kamryn's path sketches the road Arleth is walking now.
Arleth is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Arleth is headed
Arleth is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 61% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Arleth beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Arleth in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Six letters, two syllables, and spelled as it sounds — easy for a child to write early.
- Works in both Spanish and English with no change of spelling, only a small shift in the final consonant.
- Sits inside a recognized family of -th names, so it looks familiar to many people even on first sight.
- Has an established older relative in French Arlette, which gives it a documented history behind a modern spelling.
- The competing spellings are the main friction: Arlet, Arlette and Arleth all exist, so she will spell it out fairly often, especially outside communities where the -th ending is already known.
- Two pronunciations circulate — the final th as a t, or as in "with" — and both will be used by different people over her life. Families usually settle on one and let the rest go.
- She is unlikely to meet another Arleth at school. That is a pleasure for some children and a small burden for others, particularly in the years when blending in matters most.
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Frequently asked
- How many Arleths are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,800 people named Arleth are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Arleth in 2025?
- Arleth ranks #269 among US girl names in 2025, with 1,156 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Arleth?
- About 1 in every 1,390 US girls born in 2025 was named Arleth — 1,156 in all.
- Will my child share the name Arleth with classmates?
- Arleth will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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