Arnett
Arnett was last recorded in 2006, when 7 babies were given it; 1,373 Americans have been recorded with it between 1893 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnett by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arnett?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,648, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
35 babies in 1951, the peak
Arnett peaked in 1951, when 35 boys were given it, #1,241 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 7 | #9,648 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,989 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,678 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,031 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,478 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,228 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #6,997 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,465 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #4,993 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,949 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 7 | #4,986 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,105 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,579 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 9 | #3,873 | 5.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,213 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,736 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,914 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,216 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,238 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,364 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,386 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,294 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,326 | 4.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,204 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,995 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 15 | #2,049 | 8.4 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,629 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,042 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,207 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 14 | #2,194 | 6.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,548 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,319 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,666 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,839 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,100 | 7.0 |
| 1956 | 28 | #1,481 | 13.2 |
| 1955 | 27 | #1,485 | 13.1 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,765 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,962 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,548 | 12.3 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,241 | 18.6 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,817 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,584 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,761 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 21 | #1,651 | 11.5 |
| 1946 | 17 | #1,762 | 10.5 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,249 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,527 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,580 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 15 | #1,870 | 10.9 |
| 1941 | 22 | #1,449 | 17.9 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,629 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 17 | #1,641 | 15.4 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,904 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 18 | #1,632 | 16.9 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,507 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,710 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,503 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,406 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,196 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,848 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,185 | 11.8 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,675 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,399 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,649 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,566 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,536 | 21.5 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,679 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,125 | 13.7 |
| 1922 | 17 | #1,952 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,452 | 24.5 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,701 | 19.7 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,409 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,449 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,326 | 29.2 |
| 1916 | 15 | #1,955 | 16.9 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,460 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,391 | 29.0 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,312 | 31.2 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,176 | 37.2 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,603 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,461 | 30.5 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,122 | 45.4 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,321 | 33.2 |
| 1897 | 11 | #653 | 97.6 |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,111 | 41.8 |
| 1893 | 6 | #915 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arnett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,373 Americans recorded as Arnett, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arnett: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnett, and how old are they?
An estimated 567 Americans named Arnett and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 53 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 683 people named Arnett (114 women and girls, 569 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 665 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,469 babies since 1880, Arnett is the most given (93% of them).
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 Arnett
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 Arnett and names like it
- Compare Arnett and ArnetBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sArnett peaked in 1951.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnett since 1910.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Arnett.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arnett alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.