Girls' name · since 1914
Arnice
Arnice has 109 recorded births since 1914 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1919 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #26,126 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 109
- born since 1914
- 1960s
- peak decade
Arnice sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 109 recorded since 1914.
Arnice has 109 recorded births among girls since 1914, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1914 to 1973.
- #26,126 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 109 born since 1914
- 1960s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arnice ranks #26,126 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 109 born since 1914, peaking in the 1960s.
- #26,126 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 109
- born since 1914
- 1960s
- peak decade
Arnice's 109 recorded births place it above 63.75% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Arnice's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Arnice's SSA record in two at 1949 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1914, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1919 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Arnice popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1914–1973
- Peak year (1919)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 60 years of records
Arnice by decade
1960s is the heaviest window (36 births, 33% of the file).
1960s was Arnice's strongest decade.
36 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 33% of all-time use.
Arnice births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s
1910s
24 births
- 1920s
1920s
17 births
- 1930s 5
1930s
5 births
- 1940s 10
1940s
10 births
- 1950s 11
1950s
11 births
- 1960s
1960s
36 births
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 36 births (33% of all-time use).
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- Arnice's decade-level peak was the 1960s (36 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1970s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 1914–1973 (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 Arnice 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.