Arlo

What Arlo means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Arlo?

US: Rising: up from #501 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #102 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 2,490 boys got the name (#146 that year). First in the US records in 1899.

How common

• About 1 in 699 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 131 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 135 baby boys 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.

Where in the US

Most popular in WY (9.17 per 1,000 boys), VT (7.43 per 1,000 boys), ND (4.77 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Arlo is #148 in the US and #15 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.2% of US babies named Arlo were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Arley92 US · 84 E&W
• Earl63 US
• Arlow38 US · 7 E&W
• Arel16 US · 16 E&W
• Arly8 US · 9 E&W
• Arul6 US
• Arloh5 US
• Arloe0 US · 4 E&W

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 Arlo

Boys

• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Barrett#171Editor’s note 2,138 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales
• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025

For a sister

• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025
• Nova#46“new”^*
• Sloane#141Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #327 in 2015, #141 in 2025
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*

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 Arlo’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.