Arna
Arna was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,175 among girls’ names; 624 Americans have been recorded with it since 1903 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arna mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Arna is “a male given name”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arna?
#7,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Arna rose from #7,660 in 2015 to #7,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 8.4 to 9.3 per million.
29 babies in 2021, the peak
Arna peaked in 2021, when 29 girls were given it, #4,622 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,175 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,313 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,262 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,328 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,622 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,654 | 17.3 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,002 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,622 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,844 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,689 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,660 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,011 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,126 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,655 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,366 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,549 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,705 | 4.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,502 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,061 | 2.9 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,298 | 3.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #5,843 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,846 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,647 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,561 | 4.7 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,887 | 3.0 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,200 | 3.5 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,040 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,924 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,407 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,480 | 4.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,103 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,166 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,598 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,820 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,497 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,657 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,735 | 8.2 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,900 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,021 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,452 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,694 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,150 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,508 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,144 | 4.4 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,524 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,292 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,288 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,779 | 5.7 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,834 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,256 | 5.0 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,767 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,855 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,336 | 5.1 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,484 | 4.8 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,378 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,178 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,431 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,235 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,258 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,125 | 5.5 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,612 | 22.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arna, and how old are they?
An estimated 462 Americans named Arna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 476 people named Arna (443 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Arna?
Arna is a less common spelling of Aarna: SSA has recorded 624 Arna and 2,848 Aarna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 134,635 babies since 1880, Arna is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 2,583 babies (<1%), again the sixth 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.
More about Arna and names like it
- Compare Arna and AarnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arna since 1910.
- Turkish namesWiktionary’s origin for Arna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Arna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.