Arlo

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: English

Meaning

Arlo is a unisex given name. Some sources state it to be of Old English origin, meaning "endless energy"; it was first used by Edmund Spenser, who "evidently invented" it, as the name of a hill where the gods debate in his poem The Faerie Queene.

From Wikipedia

Arlo first appears in the data in 2014 and has been recorded in 12 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2019 with 809 babies (rank #31 that year). In 2025 it was given to 466 boys (rank #33). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

Numerology of Arlo

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Arlo yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

5,258
Total babies (all years)
12
Years in the data
809
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
201412#160
2015187#115
2016332#103
2017500#46
2018512#43
2019809#31
2020574#35
2021459#30
2022466#21
2023473#17
2024463#35
2025466#33