Arnett — boys' name

What the Data Says About Arnett

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,298 babies named Arnett between 1893 and 2006, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arnett currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1951, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Arnett is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 75 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arnett performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 223 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Arnett shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Arnett in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arnett 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 1,298 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.