Arnaldo
Arnaldo was given to 5 boys in 2025, #12,178 among boys’ names; 2,083 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,860 Americans named Arnaldo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 29 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnaldo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arnaldo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Arnaldo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Arnold”
/arˈnal.do/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arnaldo?
#12,178 among boys’ names, 2025
Arnaldo fell from #6,014 in 2015 to #12,178 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 2.9 per million.
90 babies in 1989, the peak
Arnaldo peaked in 1989, when 90 boys were given it, #1,111 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,178 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,363 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,551 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,859 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,048 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,469 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,211 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,205 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,198 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,178 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,014 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,189 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,674 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,728 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,602 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,752 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,590 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,258 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,820 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,370 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,331 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 22 | #4,012 | 11.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,282 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,453 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 35 | #2,678 | 18.0 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,297 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,483 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,193 | 12.6 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,824 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 29 | #2,592 | 15.3 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,052 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,080 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,253 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 63 | #1,448 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 67 | #1,378 | 33.2 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,212 | 39.4 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,111 | 45.0 |
| 1988 | 41 | #1,704 | 21.4 |
| 1987 | 43 | #1,610 | 23.0 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,228 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,726 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 46 | #1,398 | 25.5 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,710 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,292 | 28.7 |
| 1981 | 46 | #1,396 | 25.7 |
| 1980 | 37 | #1,594 | 20.7 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,836 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 60 | #1,135 | 36.5 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,209 | 12.8 |
| 1976 | 18 | #2,421 | 11.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | #1,659 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 35 | #1,473 | 22.3 |
| 1973 | 31 | #1,548 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,822 | 14.8 |
| 1971 | 27 | #1,706 | 15.3 |
| 1970 | 28 | #1,618 | 15.1 |
| 1969 | 19 | #1,914 | 10.6 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,112 | 8.6 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,811 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 30 | #1,401 | 16.8 |
| 1965 | 30 | #1,404 | 16.1 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,616 | 12.0 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,587 | 12.3 |
| 1962 | 33 | #1,366 | 16.0 |
| 1961 | 23 | #1,688 | 10.8 |
| 1960 | 20 | #1,815 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,665 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 30 | #1,420 | 14.1 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,021 | 7.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,094 | 7.1 |
| 1955 | 19 | #1,792 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,753 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,542 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 8 | #2,883 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,080 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,027 | 7.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,614 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #2,875 | 4.4 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,542 | 5.5 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,353 | 3.7 |
| 1944 | 7 | #2,877 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,977 | 4.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,550 | 4.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,611 | 5.5 |
| 1929 | 5 | #3,990 | 4.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,758 | 5.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,856 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arnaldo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arnaldo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arnaldo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnaldo, and how old are they?
1,860 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,083 Americans ever recorded as Arnaldo. The median Arnaldo alive today is 38 years old; half are between 29 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 4,826 people named Arnaldo (7 women and girls, 4,819 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,850 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 213 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 403 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 328 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 146 |
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 Arnaldo born?
The states with the most babies named Arnaldo are New York, Texas and California, with 81% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 458 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 232 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 146 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 84 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 71 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Massachusetts | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Arnaldo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arnaldo is most over-represented in New York: since 1915 it was given 3.0 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 Arnaldo 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 6,796 babies since 1880, Arnaldo is the second most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 31 babies (16%), again the second 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 Arnaldo
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 Arnaldo and names like it
- Compare Arnaldo and ArnoldoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sArnaldo peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnaldo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Arnaldo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Arnaldo.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Arnaldo alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.