Arath
Arath was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,548 among boys’ names; 1,154 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Arath and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arath by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arath?
#4,548 among boys’ names, 2025
Arath rose from #4,726 in 2015 to #4,548 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 12.9 per million.
110 babies in 2002, the peak
Arath peaked in 2002, when 110 boys were given it, #1,233 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,548 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,960 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,226 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 31 | #3,620 | 17.8 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,817 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 25 | #4,023 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,566 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,114 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,603 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,779 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,726 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,877 | 9.9 |
| 2013 | 30 | #3,502 | 15.9 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,717 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,700 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,533 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,587 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,165 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 70 | #1,997 | 33.7 |
| 2006 | 60 | #2,149 | 29.2 |
| 2005 | 76 | #1,740 | 38.1 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,627 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,418 | 47.1 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,233 | 56.7 |
| 2001 | 57 | #1,910 | 29.3 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,846 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,843 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,706 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,300 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,010 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arath a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arath has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arath: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arath, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,154 Americans ever recorded as Arath. The median Arath alive today is 19 years old; half are between 12 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 844 people named Arath (14 women and girls, 830 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 977 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 323 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Arath born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,304 | 3.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,501 | 1.8× |
Where Arath is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arath is most over-represented in Texas: since 1996 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arath with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,371 babies since 1880, Arath is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 44 babies (50%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arath
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Arath and names like it
- Compare Arath and ArthBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sArath peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arath since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Arath.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arath alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.