Boys' name · since 2021
Arnik
31 babies named Arnik in U.S. Social Security records since 2021, with the highest year being 2025. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #25,533 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,852 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
31 babies have been named Arnik since 2021, making it today's #5852 boys' name.
Arnik has 31 recorded births among boys since 2021, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #5852 as of the latest data, more common than 58% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2021 to 2025.
- #25,533 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #5,852 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 31 born since 2021
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Arnik ranks #25,533 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,852 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 31 born since 2021, peaking in the 2020s.
- #25,533 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #5,852 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 31
- born since 2021
- 2020s
- peak decade
Arnik's 31 recorded births place it above 43.38% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Arnik compares
31 12th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Arnik's all-time total is 92% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Arnik | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 31 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 34 | 22,252 |
Arnik's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Arnik's full recorded timeline at 2024, 68% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 32% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2021, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2025 peak of 16 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Arnik popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
Arnik by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Arnik's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Arnik births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (100% of all-time use).
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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, 2021–2025 (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 Arnik 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.