Arleen
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑɹˈɫin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 32K
- USUnited States1 in 39K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
8,620 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arleen 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 | — | 8,620 | 1 in 39K | 8.6K | Arleen | 360 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Arleen | 62 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 46K | 3 | Arleen | 84 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | 2 | Arleen | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 3 | Arleen | 87 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Arleen | 15 |
| IE Ireland | #772 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Arleen | 21 |
| PA Panama | #913 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Arleen | 17 |
8,620 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Arleen 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 French, Variante féminine rattachée à la famille de Charles; du germanique Karl « homme libre ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, ) Arlene; Arline; Arlane: aus dem
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Arline Prettyb. 1885USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1885-1978)
- Arline Judgeb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1912–1974)
- Arleen Whelanb. 1914USAmerican actress (1914–1993)
- Arline Feynmanb. 1919USnot in their usual namefirst wife of physicist Richard P. Feynman
- Arline Hunterb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and model (1931–2018)
- Arline Fischb. 1931USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist and jewelry designer (born 1931)
- Arleen Augérb. 1939USAmerican soprano (1939–1993)
- Arleen Paréb. 1946CACanadian writer
- Arleen Sorkinb. 1955USAmerican actress (1955–2023)
- Arline Burks GantUSnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, director and costume designer
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 47 sources across 31 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Arleen mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name originating as a coinage, variant of Arlene. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Arleen a male or female name?
- Arleen 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 Arleen?
- In the etymology graph, Arlene and Arline are forms of the same name in other languages; Arlie is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Arleen?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑɹˈɫin/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Arleen have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Arleen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arleen.
- How common is the name Arleen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,620 people named Arleen in 2020, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Arleen compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Arleen is the 772nd most common given name of 14,976 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Arleen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arleenThe 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, “Arleen” — the 772nd most common given name in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.