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Boy's name · #148 in the US (2025) · Trending
96% boys · 4% girls — Arlo is also given to girls: 71 in 2025, about 1 in 25 in recent years. Arlo →
Arlo ranked #148 in 2025, with about 2,400 boys given the name last year. Roughly 24,000 have carried it since 1899.
US use of Arlo jumped in 2016, the year after Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur introduced Arlo, its young Apatosaurus hero. Actress Toni Collette and Dave Galafassi had earlier chosen the name for their son, Arlo Robert, born in 2011.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#15 in England & Wales (2025) · #21 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #24 in Scotland (2025) · #38 in New Zealand (2025) · #40 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #47 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #49 in N. Ireland (2025) · #54 in Ireland (2025) · #281 in Switzerland (2025) · #297 in Belgium (2025) · #527 in Sweden (2025) · #602 in France (2025) and 2 more.
Among 36 notable people named Arlo:
Entertainers appear 1.97× more often than among typical names — e.g. Arlo Guthrie, American folk singer.
Similar names: Harlow · Hayes · Ares · Milo · Callan · Callum
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