Arbie
Arbie was last recorded in 1974, when 5 babies were given it; 650 Americans have been recorded with it between 1890 and 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arbie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arbie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,263, in 1974; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
31 babies in 1923, the peak
Arbie peaked in 1923, when 31 babies were given it (22 boys, #1,645 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,263 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,695 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 7 | #3,297 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 6 | #3,657 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 5 | #4,092 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 6 | #3,679 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 5 | #4,018 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,042 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #2,982 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,863 | 7 | #3,213 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | under 5 | 13 | #2,210 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #2,914 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,445 | 10 | #2,501 |
| 1950 | under 5 | 8 | #2,779 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,316 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #2,873 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 11 | #2,274 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 7 | #2,755 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 5 | #3,449 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 8 | #2,745 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,588 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,153 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 12 | #2,085 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 9 | #2,456 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 12 | #2,087 | |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,157 | 11 | #2,208 |
| 1936 | under 5 | 9 | #2,457 | |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,165 | 9 | #2,540 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,314 | 10 | #2,400 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 14 | #1,910 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,447 | 11 | #2,325 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #3,785 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 13 | #2,182 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 14 | #2,099 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,754 | 10 | #2,669 |
| 1927 | under 5 | 11 | #2,530 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 9 | #2,913 | |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,452 | 12 | #2,439 |
| 1924 | under 5 | 11 | #2,652 | |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,372 | 22 | #1,645 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,479 | 20 | #1,770 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,485 | 13 | #2,379 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,106 | 19 | #1,822 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,857 | 10 | #2,681 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,255 | 13 | #2,264 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,737 | 10 | #2,563 |
| 1916 | under 5 | 14 | #2,049 | |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,543 | 11 | #2,314 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 12 | #1,871 | |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,554 | 7 | #2,288 |
| 1912 | under 5 | 9 | #1,755 | |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,777 | 5 | #1,458 |
| 1904 | under 5 | 8 | #879 | |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,613 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,008 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arbie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 650 Americans recorded as Arbie, 21% are girls and 79% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arbie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arbie, and how old are they?
An estimated 128 Americans named Arbie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 73 years old and half are between 68 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Arbie (79 women and girls, 185 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 176 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 943 babies since 1880, Arbie is the most given (69% of them).
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 Arbie
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 Arbie and names like it
- Compare Arbie and ArbyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArbie peaked in 1923.
- Kentucky’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arbie since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Arbie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arbie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.