Arlene is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Arlene is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,437 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,436 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 137,449 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Arlene. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
#53 - this is the highest position Arlene has ever reached. Most names never manage to reach such high popularity in even one of the 143 years of records.The last time Arlene reached this top position was in the last century, in 1934, when 3,930 newborn girls were named Arlene. But as our statistics show, Arlene has not always been a popular name: in some years of records, lastly in the year 1887, it was either not given to newborns at all or less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Even today it's not at the peak of its popularity, nevertheless Arlene is still the first choice of some parents every year as the most beautiful first name for their newborn daughter.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Arlene was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 116 newborns were given the name Arlene, making them rank #1,597. Although the name Arlene was more popular in the last century than it is today, it is still common and for some parents it is the name of choice for their daughter. So the chances of an encounter with a young Arlene are still there in our contemporary times.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Arlene is one of them. However, Arlene is not equally widespread in all states, but people in North Dakota seem to particularly fancy this name – the 1,510 women called Arlene who live here are 0,289% of all female residents and push their name up to #96, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in North Dakota.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With six letters, the name Arlene is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Arlene and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Arlene, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arlene
Arlene
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
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E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Arlene sounds like this:
