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This is a hard one to be sure about, but when I was trying to research this name back in 2004 I found that Arlo is the name of a hill where the gods debate in Edmund Spenser's poem The Faerie Queen, which was published around 1596. It is possibly related to Harlow, an English place name and surname that originally meant "army hill".

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It's unusual for fictional place names to be given to children, but there are some other examples. I have seen several examples of girls named Avonlea, after a fictional place in the Anne of Green Gables books.

This message was edited 7/12/2010, 5:19 PM