Arlo

maleIrish (place name origin, via literary adaptation)

Meaning uncertain — likely derived by Edmund Spenser from the real Irish place name Aherlow ('between two highlands') for the fictional Arlo Hill in The Faerie Queene (1590).

Origin: Irish (place name origin, via literary adaptation)

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #10 in New Zealand in 2017. See regions.

Arlo: Recorded every year since 1999, it reached #10 in 2017, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
93times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#10highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
32names it appears alongside

What stands out in Arlo's record

England and Wales registered 2,253 births with the name in 2023, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count

AR-loh/ˈɑɹ.loʊ/

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Data Confidence

Evidence: ModerateCompleteness: SubstantialEditorial review: 2026-07-21

Confidence in the evidencebehind this name's data — never a rating of the name itself, and never affected by how well it matches your preferences. How this is assessed

Because: backed by officially or academically authoritative sources, recently verified, popularity data covers multiple regions.

Source authority

Averaged from the real per-claim source-authority assessments already computed for this name's meaning/origin/pronunciation/popularity evidence.

Independent corroboration

Averaged from the real per-claim supporting-source counts already computed for this name's evidence.

See full evidence assessment (8 dimensions, 1 not yet tracked)

Source agreement

No recorded source disagreement for this name's meanings or origins.

Recency

Calculated from how long ago this record was last verified (2026-07-21), against a 270-day staleness threshold.

Geographic relevance

Calculated from the number of geographies with official popularity data (6) — broader official coverage means the evidence base is relevant to more of where the name is actually used.

Completeness

Calculated from how many of the expected data sections (variants, similar names, popularity, notable usage, IPA pronunciation) are actually populated for this name.

Direct observation vs. inference

Averaged from the real per-claim direct-observation-vs-inference ratios already computed for this name's evidence.

Identity & variant resolution quality

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Name Characteristics

How these are calculated

Descriptive attributes of the name itself — not a confidence measurement, and not an overall quality score. Namewise doesn't approve or disapprove of names.

Pronunciation clarity

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Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling: shorter names with fewer irregular letter clusters score higher. A disclosed formula, not an editorial opinion — and not a confidence measurement.

Recorded regional spread

Derived from how many geographies' official statistics record this name. It measures where the name is registered, not how well-known it feels to people living there.

International spread

Derived from the same official statistical coverage, scaled to reflect how widely the name crosses national datasets. Not a measure of how easily it is understood in another language.

Trend stability

Derived from the name's traditional/modern classification and its current popularity trend direction.

Overview

Origin: Irish (place name origin, via literary adaptation)
Meaning: Meaning uncertain — likely derived by Edmund Spenser from the real Irish place name Aherlow ('between two highlands') for the fictional Arlo Hill in The Faerie Queene (1590).
Pronunciation: AR-loh
Syllables: 2
Common nicknames: None recorded
Classification: Traditional & modern
Gender usage: male
Language family: Irish (place name origin, via literary adaptation)

Popularity

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2015–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2015	#5730
2016	#4096
2017	#3583
2018	#2340
2019	#3541
2020	#2843
2021	#1785
2022	#1849
2023	#1469
2024	#1894
2025	#3035

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1999 to 2025.

In 2025: #15 among boys in England and Wales, #47 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #54 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #2943 among boys in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #3035 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Arlo appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 21,144 births with the name.

Arlo across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Arlo's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2943 (1999)	#14 (2023)	#15 (2025)	27 of 27	21,144 (1999–2025)	2,253 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#472 (2009)	#48 (2024)	#54 (2025)	17 of 17	744 (2009–2025)	118 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#375 (2011)	#40 (2023)	#45 (2024)	13 of 14	363 (2011–2024)	53 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#5730 (2015)	#1469 (2023)	#3035 (2025)	11 of 11	114 (2015–2025)	21 (2023)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#94 (2015)	#19 (2023)	#47 (2025)	11 of 11	1,979 (2015–2025)	231 (2021)
New Zealand · Boys	#85 (2013)	#10 (2017)	#12 (2023)	11 of 11	1,544 (2013–2023)	194 (2017)

Arlo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Arlo in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	386	10 of 10	39
2010s	7,961	10 of 10	796
2020sbusiest	12,794	6 of 10	2,132

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 2,132 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2015 and 2016, when recorded births rose by 666, from 619 to 1,285.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Arlo appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 27 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #10, first reached in 2017.

It held a top-100 place in 13 years, 13 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 2,253 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Arlo was ranked #10 in New Zealand · Boys in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Arlie · #384, 23y
Arlind · #1241, 23y
Arlo-James · #619, 10y
Arlo-Jay · #924, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Archie · #9, 30y
Elijah · #7, 30y
Evie · #7, 30y
Hudson · #7, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Freddie · #10, 30y
Archie · #9, 30y
Aria · #11, 30y
Bethany · #11, 33y

Comparisons involving Arlo

Existing comparison pages where Arlo and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Arlo in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Arthur vs Arlo
Arthur and Arlo both rose over the same years in 4 registrars — England and Wales · Boys; New Zealand · Boys; Northern Ireland · Boys; Republic of Ireland · Boys. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Arthur · Arlo · 27 shared years, 1999–2025 · Moved together in several countries
Theo vs Arlo
Theo and Arlo both rose over the same years in 4 registrars — England and Wales · Boys; New Zealand · Boys; Northern Ireland · Boys; Republic of Ireland · Boys. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Theo · Arlo · 27 shared years, 1999–2025 · Moved together in several countries
Arlo vs Ezra
Arlo and Ezra both rose over the same years in 3 registrars — England and Wales · Boys; New Zealand · Boys; Northern Ireland · Boys. Each list is measured against its own starting position; the positions are never combined.
Arlo · Ezra · 27 shared years, 1999–2025 · Moved together in several countries

Order changes

Pairs where Arlo and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Arlo vs Braxton
In New Zealand · Boys, Arlo moved into the top 50 at #23 in 2016 as Braxton fell out of it to #70, having been #34 the year before.
Arlo · Braxton · 10 shared years, 2013–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2016 New Zealand ranking
Arlo vs Jayden
In New Zealand · Boys, Arlo moved into the top 50 at #23 in 2016 as Jayden fell out of it to #55, having been #39 the year before.
Arlo · Jayden · 11 shared years, 2013–2023 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 2016 New Zealand ranking

Arlo and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Arlo without appearing here.

Arlo moved ahead of

Tracy
In 2020 they stood at #2843 and #2449 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #5581.
Belinda
In 2020 they stood at #3541 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1785 and #4634.
Rune
In 2003 they stood at #2943 and #2943 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #875 and #3651.
Cheryl
In 2019 they stood at #3541 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #5493.

Moved ahead of Arlo

Arthur Compare
In 2023 they stood at #19 and #32 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 2024 that had become #38 and #18.
Elias
In 2024 they stood at #38 and #87 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys; by 2025 that had become #47 and #35.
Páidí
In 2019 they stood at #121 and #143 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2020 that had become #115 and #107.
Theodore Compare
In 2019 they stood at #11 and #15 in New Zealand · Boys; by 2020 that had become #16 and #15.

Moved the opposite way to Arlo

Aaron
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 while Aaron went from #36 to #180.
Alan
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 while Alan went from #232 to #539.
Alexander Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 while Alexander went from #20 to #40.
Andreas
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 while Andreas went from #418 to #687.

Moved the same way as Arlo

Albie
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 and Albie from #750 to #21.
Alfie
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 and Alfie from #64 to #16.
Alfred
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 and Alfred from #150 to #76.
Archie Compare
Between 1999 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Arlo went from #2943 to #15 and Archie from #108 to #11.

Meaning & Origin

Meaning uncertain — likely derived by Edmund Spenser from the real Irish place name Aherlow ('between two highlands') for the fictional Arlo Hill in The Faerie Queene (1590).

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Irish (place name origin, via literary adaptation)

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Other names with a researched meaning and origin →

Where Arlo is officially recorded

6 official registrars have recorded Arlo, between 1999 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1999–2025	27	#14 in 2023
Republic of Ireland	2009–2025	17	#48 in 2024
Northern Ireland	2011–2024	13	#40 in 2023
New Zealand	2013–2023	11	#10 in 2017
New South Wales, Australia	2015–2025	11	#19 in 2023
Scotland	2024	1	#18 in 2024

Variants

No spelling variants or nicknames recorded yet.

Similar Names

No similar names recorded yet for this name.

Similarity is a demonstration score — see methodology.

Spelling

Spelling simplicity

Calculated directly from the name's spelling — see Name Characteristics above.

No commonly used alternate spellings recorded.

Pronunciation

AR-loh/ˈɑɹ.loʊ/

Syllables: 2
Ease: easy

VerifiedSource: Behind the Name.Confidence: medium.

Where Arlo Is Recorded

National statistical agencies have recorded Arlo in these places. This shows where the name is used — not where it comes from, and not that it carries particular cultural significance there.

New South Wales, AustraliaEngland and WalesNorthern IrelandScotlandRepublic of IrelandNew Zealand

Notable Usage

No safely-sourced notable usage recorded for this name yet.

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Arlo

Arlo at a glance

What stands out in Arlo's record

Overview

Popularity

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arlo across 6 official records

Arlo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arlo appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Arlo

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Arlo

Longest shared records

Order changes

Arlo and the names beside it

Arlo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arlo

Moved the opposite way to Arlo

Moved the same way as Arlo

Meaning & Origin

Where Arlo is officially recorded

Variants

Similar Names

Spelling

Pronunciation

Where Arlo Is Recorded

Notable Usage

Sibling & Surname Compatibility

Arlo at a glance

What stands out in Arlo's record

Arlo across 6 official records

Arlo by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Arlo appears in

What the record shows

Names published alongside Arlo

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Arlo

Longest shared records

Order changes

Arlo and the names beside it

Arlo moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arlo

Moved the opposite way to Arlo

Moved the same way as Arlo