Arjun
Arjun was given to 615 boys in 2025, #490 among boys’ names; 12,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,000 Americans named Arjun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arjun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arjun mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arjun is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Hindi अर्जुन (arjun).
/ˈɑːɹ.d͡ʒʊn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arjun?
#490 among boys’ names, 2025
Arjun rose from #504 in 2015 to #490 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.30 to 0.36 per 1,000.
650 babies in 2014, the peak
Arjun peaked in 2014, when 650 boys were given it, #455 among boys’ names. The 615 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 615 | #490 | 0.36 |
| 2024 | 491 | #580 | 0.28 |
| 2023 | 470 | #602 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 506 | #578 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 475 | #588 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 501 | #560 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 574 | #499 | 0.32 |
| 2018 | 600 | #487 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 563 | #514 | 0.30 |
| 2016 | 577 | #516 | 0.30 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 575 | #504 | 0.30 |
| 2014 | 650 | #455 | 0.34 |
| 2013 | 541 | #502 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 544 | #491 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 485 | #524 | 0.26 |
| 2010 | 377 | #641 | 0.20 |
| 2009 | 319 | #731 | 0.16 |
| 2008 | 293 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 2007 | 314 | #730 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 298 | #724 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 287 | #712 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 250 | #744 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 227 | #771 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 166 | #961 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 156 | #980 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,126 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 139 | #1,004 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,029 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 97 | #1,209 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 104 | #1,139 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 89 | #1,227 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 85 | #1,264 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,353 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 64 | #1,426 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 64 | #1,417 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 64 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 48 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 26 | #2,214 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #2,293 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,172 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 17 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #2,274 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,116 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,907 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,269 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,576 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,408 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #4,967 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,252 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,249 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arjun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arjun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arjun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arjun, and how old are they?
12,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 12,176 Americans ever recorded as Arjun. The median Arjun alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 11,098 people named Arjun (18 women and girls, 11,080 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,144 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 53 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,090 |
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 Arjun born?
The states with the most babies named Arjun are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 116 | #314 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 104 | #358 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 37 | #252 | 3.2× |
| Washington | 35 | #228 | 1.6× |
| New York | 31 | #514 | 1.0× |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #215 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 27 | #415 | 0.9× |
| Virginia | 23 | #351 | 1.5× |
| Illinois | 21 | #486 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 21 | #731 | 0.5× |
Where Arjun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arjun is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1967 it was given 3.2 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 Arjun 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,575 babies since 1880, Arjun is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 615 of their 741 babies (83%), 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 Arjun
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 Arjun and names like it
- Compare Arjun and ArjanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArjun peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arjun since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Arjun: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Arjun.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arjun alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.