Arla

What Arla means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Arla yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #483 vs #4,987 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Arla?

US: Rising: up from #10866 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #923 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1934, when 64 girls got the name (#855 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 61,818 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,089 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,376 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

US vs UK

Arla is #4987 in the US and #483 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Arla were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Orla70 US · 721 E&W
• Arlo71 US · 8 E&W
• Arley34 US · 7 E&W
• Arlee34 US
• Orly29 US · 3 E&W
• Orli22 US · 4 E&W
• Arly15 US
• Arli14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Arla

Girls

• Oaklynn#153Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #153 vs #4,867 in 2025
• Elowyn#299Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #2,619 in 2015, #299 in 2025
• Cataleya#237Editor’s note Up from #437 in 2015 to #237 in 2025 in the US
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Vera#205“faith”^*
• Mabel#201“lovable”^*

For a brother

• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Elliot#151Variant of Elliott, meaning “my God is Yahweh”^*
• Kyrie#244Editor’s note Up from #333 in 2015 to #244 in 2025 in the US
• Weston#55Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #120 in 2015, #55 in 2025
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Arla’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.