Arlen
35
Babies in 2024
+250%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 57
-27%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Arlen
Arlen is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (35) are up 250% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Arlen reached its peak in 2021, when 57 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #641 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 35 represents 61% of the peak.
Across 27 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 459 boys have been officially registered with the name Arlen in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 340 boys were registered with the name, starting from 10 in 2014 and ending at 35 in 2024.