Arlet
given name · Latin script
Meaning: metathesized form of OE *alrett/*elrett ‘alder-grove’; first attested Thomas Attenerlette 1276 MELS (Sx)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aɾlet/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arlet is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 90K
- USUnited States1 in 192K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
5,124 people
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
metathesized form of OE *alrett/*elrett ‘alder-grove’; first attested Thomas Attenerlette 1276 MELS (Sx)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arlet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 5,124 | 1 in 9.8K | 5.1K | Arlet | 47 |
| EC Ecuador | 1,999 | 1 in 8.5K | 2K | — | 17 |
| US United States | 1,728 | 1 in 192K | 1.7K | Arlet | 139 |
| CO Colombia | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Arlet | 27 |
| PE Peru | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Arlet | 30 |
| CL Chile | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 25 | Arlet | 30 |
| CR Costa Rica | 66 | 1 in 77K | 66 | Arlet | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 55 | 1 in 62K | 55 | — | 10 |
5,124 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Arlet is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Thomas Attenerlette 1276 MELS (Sx); Philip atte Arlette, Robert aten Erlette 1296 SRSx. A metathesized form of OE *alrett, *elrett, ‘alder-grove’. v. ALDRITT. 89
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Basque, " Arlet egon, arlet dao, está alerta" Iz ArOñ .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arlet Palmisteb. 1973EEEstonian actor (born 1973)
- Arlet Levandib. 2005EEEstonian figure skater (born 2005)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5.1K | #863 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.3K | #507 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 2K | #617 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,394 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 450 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 197 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 66 | #2,788 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 59 | #8,394 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 55 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 51 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1922 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Arlet mean, and where does it come from?
- metathesized form of OE *alrett/*elrett ‘alder-grove’; first attested Thomas Attenerlette 1276 MELS (Sx) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Arlet have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 5.1 thousand people named Arlet, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arlet.
- Where is Arlet most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arlet is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 8.5 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Arlet?
- A machine transcription gives /aɾlet/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Arlet a male or female name?
- Arlet 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.
- What are other forms of the name Arlet?
- In the etymology graph, Arlette and Herleva are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Arlet?
- In Spain, the national register counted 5,124 people named Arlet, about 1 in 9.8 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arletThe 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, “Arlet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.