Arjuna — boys' name
309 babies named Arjuna in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 2013. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Arjuna was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Arjuna in 2013 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arjuna
The Social Security Administration has registered 309 babies named Arjuna between 1971 and 2023, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arjuna currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arjuna performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 95 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arjuna shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arjuna in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arjuna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 309 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Arjuna at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arjuna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1971
- Peak year (2013)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
309 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2013 with 15 births in a single year.
Arjuna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 95 births that decade — 31% of Arjuna's all-time total
Arjuna decade highlights
- Peak decade 95 births
- Runner-up 65 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Arjuna's strongest decade
95 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Arjuna by state
Where Arjuna concentrates geographically — total births since 1971
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 16 | 5.2% |
16 of 309 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 5.2% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 5.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1971–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.