Arnette
Arnette was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 1,088 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arnette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,343, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1959, the peak
Arnette peaked in 1959, when 49 babies were given it (44 girls, #1,645 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #14,343 | 2.8 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,136 | 2.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,381 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,943 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,187 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,464 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,105 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,698 | 4.6 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,742 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,893 | 7.5 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 7 | #6,602 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,554 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,439 | 10.3 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,627 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,006 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,435 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,521 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 27 | #2,296 | 15.3 |
| 1964 | 25 | #2,481 | 13.2 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,424 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,267 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,118 | 15.4 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,015 | 15.8 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,645 | 21.7 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,941 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,488 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,534 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,839 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,026 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,836 | 15.9 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,935 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,020 | 13.3 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,053 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,415 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 34 | #1,599 | 20.0 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,254 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,321 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,068 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,410 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,903 | 15.1 |
| 1942 | 18 | #2,052 | 13.3 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,100 | 13.2 |
| 1940 | 20 | #1,797 | 17.5 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,600 | 10.0 |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,027 | 14.5 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,007 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,531 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,742 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,753 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,884 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,592 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,433 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,592 | 4.4 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,705 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,326 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,884 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,377 | 7.4 |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,673 | 10.4 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,373 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,970 | 9.2 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,048 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,987 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,651 | 10.6 |
| 1918 | 7 | #3,905 | 6.0 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,114 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,278 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,819 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,654 | 6.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,090 | 15.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Arnette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,088 Americans recorded as Arnette, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arnette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnette, and how old are they?
An estimated 682 Americans named Arnette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 60 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 851 people named Arnette (784 women and girls, 67 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 766 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,564 babies since 1880, Arnette is the second most given (24% 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 Arnette
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 Arnette and names like it
- Compare Arnette and ArnettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sArnette peaked in 1959.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnette since 1910.
- The top names of 1959The year the most babies were named Arnette.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arnette alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.