Arlington

loc · Latin script

Meaning: from Arlington (Devon, Gloucestershire, Sussex); first attested Aelic' de Erlynton 1296

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arlington is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

from Arlington (Devon, Gloucestershire, Sussex); first attested Aelic' de Erlynton 1296

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Arlington, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arlington counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Arlington is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—661—
BR Brazil—51—
UY Uruguay—38—
GY Guyana—30—
DM Dominica—23—

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; Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Arlington is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel

    Also written ארלינגטון

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arlington is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A place in England:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, city, TX; town, MA; natl. cemetery,

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Aelic’ de Erlynton 1296, John de Erlington 1327 SRSx. From Arlington (D, Gl, Sx).

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

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)

17501800185019001950James Arlington Bennet, b. 1788Arlington G. Reynolds, b. 1849Lewis Charles Arlington, b. 1859Josie Arlington, b. 1864Edwin Arlington Robinson, b. 1869Arlington Valles, b. 1886Carl A. Gilbert, b. 1892Gary Arlington, b. 1938

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 34 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Arlington
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020654#36,772
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000632#33,993
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010449#47,272
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Arlington mean, and where does it come from?
from Arlington (Devon, Gloucestershire, Sussex); first attested Aelic' de Erlynton 1296 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Arlington have the most bearers?
Arlington is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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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, “Arlington”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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