Arham
Arham was given to 175 boys in 2025, #1,176 among boys’ names; 2,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,160 Americans named Arham and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arham by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arham?
#1,176 among boys’ names, 2025
Arham rose from #1,475 in 2015 to #1,176 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.06 to 0.10 per 1,000.
202 babies in 2024, the peak
Arham peaked in 2024, when 202 boys were given it, #1,076 among boys’ names. The 175 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 175 | #1,176 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 202 | #1,076 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 182 | #1,149 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 160 | #1,228 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 145 | #1,300 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 182 | #1,086 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 141 | #1,303 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,385 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,365 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 130 | #1,367 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 113 | #1,475 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,226 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 48 | #2,555 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 45 | #2,662 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,825 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 38 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 31 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,688 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,636 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,260 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,283 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,746 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,483 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 11 | #5,940 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,348 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,094 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arham a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arham 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 Arham: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arham, and how old are they?
2,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,181 Americans ever recorded as Arham. The median Arham alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 1,196 people named Arham (34 women and girls, 1,162 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,171 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 347 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,810 |
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 Arham born?
The states with the most babies named Arham are New York, California and Texas, with 59% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 57 | #318 | 4.6× |
| California | 15 | #1,248 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 13 | #1,418 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 13 | #601 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #773 | 2.1× |
| Illinois | 8 | #943 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 8 | #800 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,487 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,106 | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,361 | 0.3× |
Where Arham is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arham is most over-represented in New York: since 1996 it was given 4.6 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 Arham 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,843 babies since 1880, Arham is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 175 of their 281 babies (62%), the 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arham
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 Arham and names like it
- Compare Arham and AramBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sArham peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arham since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Arham.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arham alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.