Arnulfo
Arnulfo was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,761 among boys’ names; 6,316 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,870 Americans named Arnulfo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (77% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 26 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arnulfo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arnulfo mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Arnulfo is “a male given name, equivalent to English Arnulf” Its etymology gives the senses “eagle” (arn) and “wolf” (ulf).
From German Arnulf derived from Germanic elements German arn (“eagle”) and German ulf (“wolf”).
/aɾˈnulfo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arnulfo?
#3,761 among boys’ names, 2025
Arnulfo fell from #3,516 in 2015 to #3,761 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 16.2 to 17.0 per million.
119 babies in 1992, the peak
Arnulfo peaked in 1992, when 119 boys were given it, #985 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,761 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,454 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,229 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,649 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,370 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,869 | 11.0 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,800 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,361 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 37 | #3,130 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #2,995 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (114)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #3,516 | 16.2 |
| 2014 | 39 | #2,932 | 20.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,189 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | #2,775 | 22.7 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,547 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 42 | #2,826 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 54 | #2,381 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,103 | 31.9 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,071 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 76 | #1,808 | 37.0 |
| 2005 | 72 | #1,800 | 36.0 |
| 2004 | 77 | #1,670 | 38.8 |
| 2003 | 86 | #1,494 | 43.5 |
| 2002 | 84 | #1,495 | 43.3 |
| 2001 | 88 | #1,411 | 45.3 |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,398 | 45.3 |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,392 | 43.7 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,446 | 40.8 |
| 1997 | 89 | #1,281 | 47.2 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,125 | 55.4 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,155 | 51.5 |
| 1994 | 104 | #1,100 | 53.8 |
| 1993 | 111 | #1,043 | 56.6 |
| 1992 | 119 | #985 | 59.6 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,065 | 51.0 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,068 | 47.7 |
| 1989 | 97 | #1,053 | 48.5 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,123 | 41.3 |
| 1987 | 87 | #1,015 | 46.6 |
| 1986 | 83 | #1,014 | 45.1 |
| 1985 | 86 | #985 | 46.5 |
| 1984 | 83 | #975 | 46.0 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,028 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 89 | #951 | 49.1 |
| 1981 | 87 | #964 | 48.6 |
| 1980 | 95 | #911 | 53.3 |
| 1979 | 86 | #952 | 50.0 |
| 1978 | 75 | #997 | 45.7 |
| 1977 | 86 | #913 | 52.3 |
| 1976 | 86 | #893 | 54.8 |
| 1975 | 85 | #894 | 54.4 |
| 1974 | 79 | #914 | 50.2 |
| 1973 | 88 | #843 | 56.5 |
| 1972 | 62 | #1,024 | 38.2 |
| 1971 | 67 | #990 | 37.9 |
| 1970 | 69 | #968 | 37.1 |
| 1969 | 88 | #822 | 49.2 |
| 1968 | 61 | #930 | 35.1 |
| 1967 | 51 | #1,018 | 29.2 |
| 1966 | 59 | #941 | 33.1 |
| 1965 | 55 | #996 | 29.6 |
| 1964 | 64 | #952 | 32.1 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,100 | 23.6 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,147 | 21.8 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,001 | 28.2 |
| 1960 | 80 | #842 | 37.5 |
| 1959 | 57 | #1,018 | 26.7 |
| 1958 | 63 | #956 | 29.7 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,184 | 19.9 |
| 1956 | 56 | #998 | 26.5 |
| 1955 | 65 | #920 | 31.6 |
| 1954 | 77 | #825 | 37.8 |
| 1953 | 79 | #805 | 40.1 |
| 1952 | 68 | #844 | 35.0 |
| 1951 | 96 | #706 | 51.0 |
| 1950 | 69 | #818 | 38.5 |
| 1949 | 93 | #712 | 52.4 |
| 1948 | 71 | #801 | 40.5 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,319 | 16.9 |
| 1946 | 42 | #1,059 | 25.9 |
| 1945 | 31 | #1,181 | 23.0 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,120 | 25.7 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,107 | 26.6 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,335 | 19.5 |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,189 | 25.2 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,107 | 30.2 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,222 | 26.2 |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,311 | 23.4 |
| 1937 | 34 | #1,121 | 31.9 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,420 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,198 | 29.8 |
| 1934 | 26 | #1,324 | 25.2 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,125 | 34.3 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,091 | 36.4 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,363 | 25.0 |
| 1930 | 55 | #892 | 50.1 |
| 1929 | 46 | #996 | 42.8 |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,097 | 37.0 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,203 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 42 | #1,094 | 37.8 |
| 1925 | 27 | #1,425 | 24.2 |
| 1924 | 32 | #1,291 | 28.3 |
| 1923 | 14 | #2,229 | 12.8 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,651 | 20.2 |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,477 | 23.6 |
| 1920 | 17 | #1,969 | 16.0 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,629 | 21.4 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,004 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,287 | 13.0 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,551 | 23.6 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,107 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,289 | 7.6 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,845 | 9.8 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,462 | 30.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arnulfo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arnulfo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 114 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arnulfo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arnulfo, and how old are they?
4,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 77% of the 6,316 Americans ever recorded as Arnulfo. The median Arnulfo alive today is 39 years old; half are between 26 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 11,449 people named Arnulfo (25 women and girls, 11,424 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,019 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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 | 111 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 794 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 357 |
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).
Where are babies named Arnulfo born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,011 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,600 | 6.7× |
Where Arnulfo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arnulfo is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 6.7 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 Arnulfo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Arnulfo
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 Arnulfo and names like it
- Compare Arnulfo and ErasmoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArnulfo peaked in 1992.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arnulfo since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Arnulfo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Arnulfo.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Arnulfo alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.