Arleta
A Germanic name meaning "little eagle". Around 11,000 Polish women carry it, few enough that meeting one tends to stick with you.
Arleta Pronunciation
Arleta is pronounced ahr-LE-tah (/arˈlɛta/).
What Arleta means
Where Arleta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arleta rises from Germanic ground, and its oldest sense points to the eagle. The Polish reading holds that image plainly: orlica, a she-eagle, and wojownicza, warlike. Little eagle is the meaning most often given.
The name traveled. Forms like the French Arlette belong to the same family, and Poland took Arleta in and made it its own. A girl named Arleta today might find it on a class register with no explanation attached. The bird is doing the work underneath.
Short is the name, though its picture is not small. An eagle is a predator, a creature of height and reach. To call a child orlica is to place her under that sign. The warlike sense followed the eagle, since the bird has long marked armies and standards.
Arleta stays close to what it names: a small eagle, fierce by inheritance.
How many people are named Arleta
1 in 2011 women in Poland is named Arleta. 11,213 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #351 among female names.
Arleta's popularity over time
6 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #851 among newborns. It has been falling steadily since 2000. Still the #351 name among living women, even as it slips to #851 among newborns.
Where Arleta is most popular
Arleta is most popular in Subcarpathian, 378% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+153%) and Pomeranian (+96%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Masovian, 37% and 19% below average respectively.
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Subcarpathian8 girls born+378%
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Silesian8 girls born+153%
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Pomeranian4 girls born+96%
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Greater Poland4 girls born+34%
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Masovian4 girls born−19%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−37%
Arleta as a middle name
Arleta is a first name for 11,213 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2,423, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 182nd, between Melania (2,429) and Kalina (2,421).
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180
2,460Elizabeth
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181
2,429Melania
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1822,423Arleta
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183
2,421Kalina
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184
2,397Teodora