Arno
Arno was given to 27 boys in 2025, #3,955 among boys’ names; 1,723 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arno by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arno mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Arno is “a male given name”
Variant of Aarno, or directly from German Arno and/or North Germanic languages (such as Swedish Arne).
/ˈɑrno/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arno?
#3,955 among boys’ names, 2025
Arno rose from #8,081 in 2015 to #3,955 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.7 to 15.8 per million.
55 babies in 1915, the peak
Arno peaked in 1915, when 55 boys were given it, #823 among boys’ names. The 27 births of 2025 are 49% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27 | #3,955 | 15.8 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,256 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,717 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,455 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,354 | 9.7 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,248 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,358 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 19 | #4,929 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,078 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,635 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #8,081 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,592 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,299 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,919 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #10,910 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,365 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,854 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,650 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,990 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,760 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,800 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,328 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,257 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,021 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,612 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,189 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,124 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,785 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,706 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,556 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,229 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,660 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,588 | 2.7 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,436 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,869 | 4.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,897 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,456 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,677 | 5.8 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,724 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 11 | #2,994 | 6.8 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,159 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 14 | #2,513 | 7.5 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,693 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,205 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,777 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,796 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,370 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,315 | 6.5 |
| 1963 | 17 | #1,963 | 8.4 |
| 1962 | 15 | #2,117 | 7.3 |
| 1961 | 19 | #1,879 | 8.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,123 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,304 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 25 | #1,557 | 11.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,033 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,019 | 7.6 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,219 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 18 | #1,829 | 8.8 |
| 1953 | 16 | #1,963 | 8.1 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,523 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 16 | #1,909 | 8.5 |
| 1950 | 19 | #1,701 | 10.6 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,027 | 7.9 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,029 | 8.0 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,675 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,033 | 8.0 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,931 | 9.7 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,528 | 14.7 |
| 1943 | 16 | #1,836 | 11.2 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,735 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 14 | #1,913 | 11.4 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,630 | 15.5 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,883 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 14 | #1,905 | 12.6 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,533 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,508 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,134 | 11.5 |
| 1934 | 21 | #1,504 | 20.3 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,456 | 22.2 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,589 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,491 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,560 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,484 | 22.3 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,450 | 23.5 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,801 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 25 | #1,472 | 22.5 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,391 | 25.1 |
| 1924 | 34 | #1,248 | 30.0 |
| 1923 | 30 | #1,324 | 27.4 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,260 | 30.3 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,201 | 32.7 |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,089 | 39.5 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,162 | 36.7 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,126 | 36.5 |
| 1917 | 48 | #919 | 51.9 |
| 1916 | 46 | #939 | 51.7 |
| 1915 | 55 | #823 | 64.8 |
| 1914 | 36 | #907 | 55.0 |
| 1913 | 33 | #836 | 64.4 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,271 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,039 | 48.7 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,321 | 36.0 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,086 | 48.8 |
| 1908 | 9 | #951 | 58.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,213 | 39.0 |
| 1897 | 9 | #728 | 79.8 |
| 1896 | 6 | #986 | 50.2 |
| 1892 | 7 | #863 | 57.4 |
| 1888 | 7 | #818 | 57.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arno a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arno has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 109 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arno: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arno, and how old are they?
An estimated 710 Americans named Arno and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 10 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,091 people named Arno (6 women and girls, 1,085 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 676 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Arno rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Where are babies named Arno born?
The states with the most babies named Arno are Wisconsin, California and Texas, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Wisconsin is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 118 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| California | 104 | #1,301 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Minnesota | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Arno is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arno is most over-represented in Wisconsin: since 1910 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Arno with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,967 babies since 1880, Arno is the third most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 48 babies (56%), the most given that year.
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 Arno
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 Arno and names like it
- Compare Arno and ArneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sArno peaked in 1915.
- Wisconsin’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arno since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Arno: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1915The year the most babies were named Arno.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arno alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.