Arin
Arin is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 73 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,180 among girls’ names and #2,037 among boys’, #3,380 among all names counting both); 4,854 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Arin every year since 2012.
An estimated 4,730 Americans named Arin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 13 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arin?
#4,180 among girls’ names, 2025
Arin rose from #5,670 in 2015 to #4,180 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 12.9 to 21.2 per million.
129 babies in 1997, the peak
Arin peaked in 1997, when 129 babies were given it (85 girls, #1,767 among girls’ names). The 107 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 83% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,180 | 73 | #2,037 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,483 | 51 | #2,598 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,261 | 80 | #1,941 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,385 | 77 | #1,982 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,100 | 92 | #1,751 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,498 | 78 | #1,897 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,049 | 78 | #1,899 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,928 | 61 | #2,233 |
| 2017 | 31 | #4,487 | 58 | #2,273 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,263 | 57 | #2,305 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,670 | 60 | #2,234 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,780 | 40 | #2,889 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,658 | 52 | #2,401 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,592 | 56 | #2,296 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,003 | 57 | #2,262 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,435 | 43 | #2,790 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,683 | 40 | #2,948 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,717 | 26 | #3,928 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,607 | 43 | #2,766 |
| 2006 | 54 | #3,095 | 48 | #2,514 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,899 | 32 | #3,171 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,809 | 47 | #2,373 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,524 | 34 | #2,845 |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,581 | 22 | #3,791 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,125 | 36 | #2,614 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,333 | 31 | #2,864 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,180 | 46 | #2,062 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,939 | 37 | #2,348 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,767 | 44 | #2,023 |
| 1996 | 50 | #2,510 | 45 | #1,955 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,846 | 40 | #2,051 |
| 1994 | 70 | #1,995 | 47 | #1,818 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,148 | 35 | #2,206 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,293 | 38 | #2,043 |
| 1991 | 47 | #2,589 | 41 | #1,890 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,691 | 41 | #1,867 |
| 1989 | 44 | #2,571 | 39 | #1,889 |
| 1988 | 54 | #2,126 | 32 | #1,990 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,130 | 21 | #2,562 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,890 | 26 | #2,161 |
| 1985 | 50 | #2,100 | 17 | #2,836 |
| 1984 | 47 | #2,113 | 25 | #2,099 |
| 1983 | 73 | #1,532 | 25 | #2,089 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,721 | 24 | #2,167 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,737 | 20 | #2,422 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,721 | 18 | #2,619 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,052 | 18 | #2,578 |
| 1978 | 55 | #1,826 | 26 | #1,918 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,717 | 19 | #2,369 |
| 1976 | 43 | #2,028 | 22 | #2,115 |
| 1975 | 48 | #1,880 | 19 | #2,290 |
| 1974 | 31 | #2,437 | 12 | #2,957 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,645 | 20 | #2,040 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,128 | 13 | #2,666 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,513 | 16 | #2,368 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,773 | 13 | #2,627 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,664 | 12 | #2,556 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 7 | #3,248 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #3,972 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 6 | #3,555 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,660 |
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 Arin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,854 Americans recorded as Arin, 54% are girls and 46% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arin, and how old are they?
4,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,854 Americans ever recorded as Arin. The median Arin alive today is 26 years old; half are between 13 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 4,365 people named Arin (2,366 women and girls, 1,999 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 593 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,380 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,230 |
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 Arin born?
The states with the most babies named Arin are California, New York and Washington, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Washington is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #2,118 | 1.0× |
| New York | 9 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 7 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Arin 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,904 babies since 1880, Arin is the most given (35% of them). In 2025 it was given to 107 of their 269 babies (40%), 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 Arin
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 Arin and names like it
- Compare Arin and ArynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArin peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arin since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Arin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.