Arkie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Arkie

The Social Security Administration has registered 183 babies named Arkie between 1883 and 1932, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Arkie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1932. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Arkie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 37 additional births since 1928.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arkie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 60 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arkie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arkie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arkie 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 183 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.