Arnie — #8308 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arnie

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,074 babies named Arnie between 1887 and 2024, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arnie currently holds the #8308 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 60 babies received it in a single year. Arnie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 235 additional births since 1889.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arnie performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 378 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Arnie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 75 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Arnie in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arnie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,074 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.