Arnetta
Arnetta was last recorded in 1999, when 5 babies were given it; 3,248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Arnetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 56 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arnetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,611, in 1999; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1953, the peak
Arnetta peaked in 1953, when 82 girls were given it, #1,064 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | #14,611 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,240 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,225 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,921 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 9 | #8,862 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,693 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,329 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,614 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,515 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,753 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 14 | #5,620 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,292 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,982 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,696 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,737 | 12.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,295 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 14 | #4,958 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,545 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,220 | 15.7 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,057 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,643 | 13.1 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,550 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,006 | 16.4 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,686 | 19.2 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,256 | 23.8 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,025 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,024 | 25.6 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,176 | 22.2 |
| 1970 | 44 | #1,931 | 25.2 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,728 | 29.0 |
| 1968 | 50 | #1,625 | 30.5 |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,497 | 33.9 |
| 1966 | 70 | #1,292 | 41.4 |
| 1965 | 54 | #1,517 | 30.6 |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,532 | 29.0 |
| 1963 | 78 | #1,241 | 40.5 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,395 | 32.0 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,327 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,266 | 37.1 |
| 1959 | 74 | #1,244 | 36.6 |
| 1958 | 65 | #1,309 | 32.3 |
| 1957 | 61 | #1,357 | 29.8 |
| 1956 | 63 | #1,311 | 31.4 |
| 1955 | 58 | #1,321 | 29.7 |
| 1954 | 59 | #1,285 | 30.4 |
| 1953 | 82 | #1,064 | 43.6 |
| 1952 | 55 | #1,284 | 29.7 |
| 1951 | 61 | #1,189 | 33.9 |
| 1950 | 52 | #1,275 | 30.4 |
| 1949 | 52 | #1,267 | 30.4 |
| 1948 | 57 | #1,196 | 33.6 |
| 1947 | 72 | #1,046 | 40.6 |
| 1946 | 64 | #1,058 | 40.7 |
| 1945 | 42 | #1,232 | 32.1 |
| 1944 | 41 | #1,235 | 30.9 |
| 1943 | 41 | #1,276 | 29.4 |
| 1942 | 34 | #1,391 | 25.2 |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,119 | 36.4 |
| 1940 | 42 | #1,116 | 36.7 |
| 1939 | 43 | #1,091 | 39.2 |
| 1938 | 49 | #1,018 | 44.4 |
| 1937 | 44 | #1,070 | 41.4 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,136 | 37.5 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,202 | 33.4 |
| 1934 | 25 | #1,482 | 23.9 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,369 | 27.8 |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,322 | 29.0 |
| 1931 | 35 | #1,228 | 32.9 |
| 1930 | 38 | #1,210 | 33.7 |
| 1929 | 33 | #1,310 | 29.6 |
| 1928 | 30 | #1,428 | 26.0 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,559 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 37 | #1,280 | 31.2 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,470 | 25.5 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,331 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 47 | #1,112 | 39.0 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,687 | 20.8 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,149 | 35.7 |
| 1920 | 40 | #1,207 | 33.4 |
| 1919 | 28 | #1,486 | 24.8 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,301 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,309 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,300 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,968 | 16.3 |
| 1914 | 27 | #1,179 | 35.5 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,678 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 15 | #1,422 | 26.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,969 | 16.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,977 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 19 | #914 | 56.8 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,845 | 18.8 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,566 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,714 | 20.6 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,261 | 32.7 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,581 | 23.4 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,408 | 25.7 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,719 | 19.3 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,507 | 22.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arnetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arnetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arnetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnetta, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 3,248 Americans ever recorded as Arnetta. The median Arnetta alive today is 65 years old; half are between 56 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,795 people named Arnetta (1,795 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 211 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 945 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 536 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 184 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 18 |
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 Arnetta born?
The states with the most babies named Arnetta are Pennsylvania, Illinois and North Carolina, with 50% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 120 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 119 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 92 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 90 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 28 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 17 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ 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 Arnetta 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,611 babies since 1880, Arnetta is the most given (49% 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 Arnetta
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 Arnetta and names like it
- Compare Arnetta and ArnitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sArnetta peaked in 1953.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Arnetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arnetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.