Arla

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Arla: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Arla: Recorded every year since 2008, its highest recorded position is #196, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
23times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#196highest recorded position
4groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#4524
2009	#3936
2010	#4012
2011	#4049
2012	#2215
2013	#2649
2014	#1966
2015	#923
2016	#719
2017	#576
2018	#387
2019	#358
2020	#385
2021	#339
2022	#340
2023	#366
2024	#408

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 girls in England and Wales in every year from 2008 to 2024.

In 2024: #196 among girls in Scotland, #408 among girls in England and Wales, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4524 among girls in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Arla appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 17 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 1,061 births with the name.

Arla across 2 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.

Arla'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 · Girls	#4524 (2008)	#339 (2021)	#408 (2024)	17 of 17	1,061 (2008–2024)	140 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#883 (2021)	#608 (2025)	#608 (2025)	5 of 5	18 (2021–2025)	5 (2025)

Arla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Arla in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	9	2 of 10	5
2010s	452	10 of 10	45
2020sbusiest	600	5 of 10	120

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 120 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2017 and 2018, when recorded births rose by 41, from 74 to 115.

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

Arla appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #196 in Scotland in 2024.

Arla's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#408	105	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#366	114	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#340	127	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#339	140	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#385	114	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#358	123	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#387	115	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#576	74	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#719	56	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#923	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1966	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2649	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4012	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3936	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#727	4	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#883	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#196	19	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2008 and 2025, ranked in 18 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #196, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 140 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2021, and 16 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.

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.

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Arlen · #641, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Vega · #196, 16y
Saorla · #193, 22y
Eire · #192, 21y
Rua · #192, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Oliwier · #196, 22y
Vega · #196, 16y
Matei · #193, 21y
Pola · #199, 22y

Arla was ranked #196 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. 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.

Arla 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 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Arla without appearing here.

Arla moved ahead of

Ellinor Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2215 and #5876.
Meabh Compare
In 2011 they stood at #4049 and #4049 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #2215 and #5876.
Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4049 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2649 and #5742.
Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2649 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1966 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Arla

Fiadh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #366 and #404 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #408 and #374.

Moved the opposite way to Arla

Abigail Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 while Abigail went from #29 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 while Aimee went from #86 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 while Alex went from #397 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 while Alexandra went from #90 to #215.

Moved the same way as Arla

Ada Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 and Ada from #699 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 and Alma from #1247 to #234.
Amelia Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 and Amelia from #9 to #2.
Aria Compare
Between 2008 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Arla went from #4524 to #408 and Aria from #1135 to #35.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #196 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Arla across 2 official records

Arla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Arla across 2 official records

Arla by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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