Arnie
Arnie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 866th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 196060 births
- Best rank
- #866in 1910
- Since 1887
- 2,309people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,074 boys have been named Arnie in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 60 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1954, and the 1960s alone account for 18%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 235 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arnie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 34 | |
| 1910s | 212 | |
| 1920s | 193 | |
| 1930s | 215 | |
| 1940s | 251 | |
| 1950s | 331 | |
| 1960s | 378 | |
| 1970s | 154 | |
| 1980s | 99 | |
| 1990s | 69 | |
| 2000s | 44 | |
| 2010s | 39 | |
| 2020s | 43 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Arnie was the 985th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Arnie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Staffordpeak 1959
- Reynoldspeak 1923
- Lovellpeak 1916
- Feltonpeak 1948
- Thurstonpeak 1918
- Russellpeak 1960
- Prenticepeak 1939
- Linwoodpeak 1948
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.