Arlèn
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Arlèn is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 97th most common given name. Recorded meaning: an alteration of the German surname Erlen.
- USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 15K
- ALAlbania1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
5,836 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Costa Rica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arlen in NI Nicaragua, US United States, CR Costa Rica.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)an alteration of the German surname Erlen.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arlèn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 5,836 | 1 in 57K | 4.6K | Arlen | 205 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,592 | 1 in 82K | 2.6K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | #513 | 343 | 1 in 15K | 343 | Arlen | 18 |
| AL Albania | — | 111 | 1 in 28K | 106 | — | — |
| ES Spain | — | 79 | 1 in 633K | 79 | — | 50 |
| HR Croatia | — | 23 | 1 in 184K | 26 | — | — |
| NI Nicaragua | #97 | — | — | — | Arlen | 25 |
5,836 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arlèn mean, and where does it come from?
- an alteration of the German surname Erlen. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history] and Nordic Names.
- Is Arlèn a male or female name?
- Arlèn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Arlèn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.8 thousand people named Arlèn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arlen.
- Where is Arlèn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arlèn is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Arlèn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,836 people named Arlèn in 2020, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Arlèn compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Arlèn is the 97th most common given name of 16,569 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arl%C3%A8nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arlèn” — the 97th most common given name in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.