Arrow — #1673 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Arrow

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,639 babies named Arrow between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arrow currently holds the #1673 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 172 babies received it in a single year. Arrow is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 822 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Arrow performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 868 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arrow shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 203 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Arrow in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Arrow 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 1,639 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.