Arlena
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
/ˈɑɹɫɪnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arlena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 225K(measured from records)
- GHGhana≈1 in 79K
- GYGuyana1 in 125K
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
- 218 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
1,478 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Ghana, 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)
Arlena 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 | 1,478 | 1 in 225K | 1.5K | Arlena | 218 |
| PH Philippines | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Arlena | 7 |
| GH Ghana | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Arlena | 2 |
| PL Poland | 273 | 1 in 140K | 273 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 270K | listed | Arlena | 32 |
| HR Croatia | 28 | 1 in 151K | 33 | — | — |
| AL Albania | 17 | 1 in 181K | 17 | — | 7 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 2 |
1,478 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Arlena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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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)
- Arlena Beatrice Rose Twiggb. 1978born 29 Nov 1978; died 23 Aug 1988
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 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #9,402 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 273 | #860 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 273 | #860 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 33 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 28 | #3,134 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 17 | #8,027 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #9,402 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2020 | 2 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1998 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
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 Arlena 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).
- How do you pronounce Arlena?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑɹɫɪnə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Arlena a male or female name?
- Arlena 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 Arlena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Arlena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arlena.
- How common is the name Arlena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,478 people named Arlena in 2020, about 1 in 225 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/arlenaThe 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, “Arlena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.