About the name Arlen
Arlen belongs to the English & American tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Arlen first appears in Social Security records in 1909. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #380 in 1934, and in 2024 99 babies received the name — 7,237 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.