Arletta
A Germanic name meaning "little eagle". Given only to girls, it stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met an Arletta, and the handful of newborns each year keeps it that way.
Arletta Pronunciation
Arletta is pronounced ahr-LET-tah (/arˈlɛtta/).
What Arletta means
Where Arletta comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Arletta grows from a Germanic root. Behind it stands the old word for eagle, arn or aro, the same element that gave harder names like Arnold their bite. Where those names turned toward the whole bird, Arletta keeps the diminutive, so it means little eagle, in Polish mała orlica.
The eagle means a great deal to a Polish reader, since a white one spreads its wings across the national emblem. Mała orlica sets that grand bird beside a child, small and unfledged. The name does not claim the eagle's size. It claims its kind.
On a school register the name sits plainly, four syllables, easy to read at roll call. A girl answers to it, and the meaning waits underneath, little eagle, ready whenever someone asks where the word came from.
How many people are named Arletta
1 in 13145 women in Poland is named Arletta. 1,715 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #750 among female names.
Arletta's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1194 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2022. Still the #750 name among living women, even as it slips to #1194 among newborns.
Where Arletta is most popular
Arletta is most popular in Subcarpathian, 796% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+375%).
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Subcarpathian2 girls born+796%
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Silesian2 girls born+375%
Arletta as a middle name
Arletta is a first name for 1,715 women in Poland and a middle name for another 341, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 367th, between Alicia (349) and Liza (338).
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365
353Sabrina
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366
349Alicia
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367341Arletta
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368
338Liza
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369
336Delfina