# Arlette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/arlette/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,109 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 8,109 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 29, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 142 | 1,543 |
| 2012 | 148 | 1,503 |
| 2013 | 144 | 1,525 |
| 2014 | 112 | 1,819 |
| 2015 | 128 | 1,670 |
| 2016 | 254 | 1,039 |
| 2017 | 234 | 1,083 |
| 2018 | 301 | 895 |
| 2019 | 272 | 965 |
| 2020 | 238 | 1,050 |
| 2021 | 259 | 993 |
| 2022 | 352 | 800 |
| 2023 | 383 | 735 |
| 2024 | 517 | 584 |
| 2025 | 600 | 494 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 4,137 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4,001 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 4 | 4,634 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Arlette

- Arlette Laguiller, French politician
- Arlette Marchal, actress (1902-1984)
- Arlette Farge, French historian and teacher
- Arlette Ben Hamo, French athletics competitor
- Arlette Dagnon Vignikin, Ambassador of Benin
- Agnès Varda, French artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer (1928–2019)
- Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress and writer
- Marie Glory, actress (1905-2009)
- Tonia, Belgian singer
- Pebbles, American dance-pop singer-songwriter

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.