Arleen or Arlene is an Irish feminine given name and variant of Carlene or Charlene and in the French derived from feminine diminutive of Charles (meaning free man).

What is the name Arleen mean?

In French Baby Names the meaning of the name Arleen is: Derived from a feminine , meaning manly.

How common is the name Arlene?

A total of 1,807 babies also bear the same first name during that year in the U.S. From 1880 to 2018, the highest recorded use of this name was in 1934 with a total of 3,916 babies. That's a lot of baby Arlenes. Since 1880 up to 2018, the name “Arlene” was recorded 142,516 times in the SSA public database.