The English name Arlo is of uncertain meaning. It was first used in the place name Arlo Hill by poet Edmund Spenser in ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1590), a hill where the gods debate in his poem.
Arlo is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Arlo isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Arlo ranks 299. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 6 were named Arlo. In the entire USA, approximately 13,916 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Arlo. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The English name Arlo is of uncertain meaning. It was first used in the place name Arlo Hill by poet Edmund Spenser in ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1590), a hill where the gods debate in his poem.
It is suspected,... that Spenser's Arlo Hill was inspired by the real Irish place name Aherlow, meaning 'between two highlands'.
Everyone knows him, everyone loves him and still he’s different from the mainstream: Arlo occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the nearly 50,000 different male first names that occur in the USA, only 386 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Arlo is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Arlo is not one of those names that everyone encounters in his neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, captures attention and is something special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 13,719 men and boys of all generations bear the name Arlo – that is one in 12,167. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Minnesota, where one in 400 men and boys is called Arlo, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 124,993 men for their name to get Arlo as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With four letters, the name Arlo is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Arlo 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 Arlo, you can simply say:
Apple
Rocket
Lion
Orange
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Arlo
Arlo
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
R
L
O
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.
A
R
L
O
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. Arlo sounds like this:
