Arnie
Arnie was given to 14 boys in 2025, #6,168 among boys’ names; 2,323 Americans have been recorded with it since 1887 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Arnie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (49% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 45 and 69.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arnie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arnie is “a diminutive of the male given name Arnold.”
From Arnold + -ie.
/ˈɑɹni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arnie?
#6,168 among boys’ names, 2025
Arnie entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #6,168 in 2025.
60 babies in 1960, the peak
Arnie peaked in 1960, when 60 boys were given it, #983 among boys’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 14 | #6,168 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 9 | #8,365 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 12 | #6,914 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 7 | #9,910 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 5 | #12,299 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 10 | #7,550 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,256 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #10,868 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #12,412 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #9,737 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #10,834 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 6 | #10,867 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #11,159 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 7 | #9,649 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 7 | #8,715 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,464 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #7,569 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,346 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,192 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,886 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 9 | #6,119 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 5 | #9,099 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 9 | #5,894 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,257 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 10 | #5,111 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 12 | #4,422 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,259 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,172 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 13 | #3,451 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,349 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 8 | #4,577 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 12 | #3,424 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 17 | #2,715 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 16 | #2,787 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #5,567 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 8 | #4,437 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 12 | #3,226 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 13 | #3,049 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,486 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 20 | #2,209 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 11 | #3,138 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 11 | #3,023 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 19 | #2,086 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 27 | #1,707 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 23 | #1,849 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 25 | #1,643 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 23 | #1,649 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 22 | #1,656 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 39 | #1,196 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 30 | #1,405 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 39 | #1,236 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 40 | #1,228 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 55 | #1,028 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 45 | #1,180 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 60 | #983 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,298 | 51 | #1,080 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 52 | #1,060 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 47 | #1,117 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 38 | #1,233 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 20 | #1,726 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 25 | #1,528 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,712 | 23 | #1,592 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,947 | 22 | #1,619 |
| 1951 | under 5 | 23 | #1,552 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 30 | #1,312 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 27 | #1,409 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 27 | #1,401 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 31 | #1,318 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 32 | #1,237 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 20 | #1,500 | |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,708 | 25 | #1,330 |
| 1943 | under 5 | 20 | #1,581 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,660 | 21 | #1,537 |
| 1941 | under 5 | 24 | #1,375 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 24 | #1,370 | |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,936 | 30 | #1,195 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 24 | #1,366 | |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,289 | 29 | #1,234 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,228 | 21 | #1,465 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,251 | 29 | #1,248 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,465 | 20 | #1,555 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 15 | #1,833 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,460 | 14 | #2,003 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,991 | 13 | #2,106 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,593 | 20 | #1,645 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,608 | 12 | #2,321 |
| 1928 | under 5 | 19 | #1,765 | |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,857 | 20 | #1,749 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,337 | 14 | #2,197 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,686 | 22 | #1,628 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,676 | 24 | #1,579 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,664 | 21 | #1,698 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,785 | 22 | #1,650 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,049 | 25 | #1,510 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,110 | 14 | #2,230 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,022 | 21 | #1,628 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,530 | 27 | #1,375 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,369 | 20 | #1,647 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,507 | 39 | #1,028 |
| 1915 | under 5 | 27 | #1,269 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 23 | #1,225 | |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,220 | 25 | #999 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,379 | 10 | #1,622 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,459 | 7 | #1,395 |
| 1910 | under 5 | 13 | #866 | |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,234 | 9 | #1,027 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,128 | 6 | #1,224 |
| 1904 | under 5 | 7 | #971 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 6 | #1,015 | |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,346 | 6 | #952 |
| 1898 | under 5 | 7 | #889 | |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,295 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | under 5 | 5 | #937 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arnie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,323 Americans recorded as Arnie, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arnie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnie, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 49% of the 2,323 Americans ever recorded as Arnie. The median Arnie alive today is 62 years old; half are between 45 and 69.
The 2020 Census counted 1,640 people named Arnie (153 women and girls, 1,487 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,232 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 97 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 480 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 260 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 129 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 73 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,967 babies since 1880, Arnie is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 48 babies (29%), again the second most given.
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 Arnie
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 Arnie and names like it
- Compare Arnie and ArneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sArnie peaked in 1960.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnie since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Arnie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arnie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.