Girls' name · since 2004
Arni
Arni has 18 recorded births since 2004 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2004 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #46,789 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 18
- born since 2004
- 2010s
- peak decade
Arni is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 18 have been recorded since 2004.
Arni has 18 recorded births among girls since 2004, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2004 to 2018.
- #46,789 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 18 born since 2004
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arni ranks #46,789 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 18 born since 2004, peaking in the 2010s.
- #46,789 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 18
- born since 2004
- 2010s
- peak decade
Arni's 18 recorded births place it above 34.45% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Arni's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Arni's full recorded timeline at 2016, 61% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 39% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2016, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2004 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Arni popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2004–2018
- Peak year (2004)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Arni by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (11 births, 61% of the file).
2010s was Arni's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 61% of all-time use.
Arni births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 11 births (61% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Arni: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2004)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2004–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Arni draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.