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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Arla

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#4,998

up +173 places

2025 births

26

up +1 births

All-time births

2,789

1% of them in 2025

More common than

95%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1934
64 births
Best rank
#855
in 1934
First recorded
1888
#1,293 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1948
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
110 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 193464#855Peak
  2. 194162#936
  3. 193060#942
  4. 195160#1,203
  5. 194358#1,048

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #855 in 1934 · peak births 64 in 1934

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 1% boys■ 99% girls

17 boys · 2,789 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Arla has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.