Arena
Arena was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,035 among girls’ names; 494 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arena?
#11,035 among girls’ names, 2025
Arena rose from #16,702 in 2015 to #11,035 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 5.0 per million.
14 babies in 2014, the peak
Arena peaked in 2014, when 14 girls were given it, #8,092 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 57% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,035 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,631 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,683 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,077 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,637 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,593 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,464 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,637 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,142 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,898 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,702 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,092 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,624 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,369 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,496 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,943 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,698 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,076 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,359 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,689 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,315 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,426 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,327 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,208 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,831 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,324 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,946 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,194 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,652 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,613 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,346 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,509 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,305 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,838 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,383 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,534 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,289 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,491 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,606 | 4.6 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,367 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,651 | 4.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,536 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,862 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,838 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,288 | 2.5 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,400 | 3.9 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,590 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,652 | 3.7 |
| 1937 | 8 | #3,159 | 7.5 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,216 | 5.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,889 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,149 | 4.1 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,823 | 9.7 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,894 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,739 | 6.5 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,576 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,816 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,904 | 9.2 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,649 | 22.0 |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,486 | 25.1 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,616 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,715 | 19.3 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,311 | 30.0 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,364 | 26.9 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,344 | 26.3 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,291 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arena, and how old are they?
An estimated 368 Americans named Arena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 449 people named Arena (447 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 134,825 babies since 1880, Arena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 2,518 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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.
More about Arena and names like it
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