Arrington — boys' name

What the Data Says About Arrington

The Social Security Administration has registered 501 babies named Arrington between 1970 and 2023, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arrington currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Arrington is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 233 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arrington performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 140 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arrington shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arrington in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arrington 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 501 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.