Arrow
Arrow is given to both girls and boys: 36 girls and 77 boys were given it in 2025 (#3,987 among girls’ names and #1,976 among boys’, #3,254 among all names counting both); 2,575 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,550 Americans named Arrow and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 5 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arrow by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arrow?
#1,976 among boys’ names, 2025
Arrow fell from #1,641 in 2015 to #1,976 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 50.6 to 45.1 per million.
283 babies in 2018, the peak
Arrow peaked in 2018, when 283 babies were given it (172 boys, #1,122 among boys’ names). The 113 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 40% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,987 | 77 | #1,976 |
| 2024 | 47 | #3,342 | 100 | #1,674 |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,708 | 116 | #1,518 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,077 | 124 | #1,458 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,312 | 128 | #1,424 |
| 2020 | 91 | #2,038 | 155 | #1,215 |
| 2019 | 82 | #2,232 | 161 | #1,188 |
| 2018 | 111 | #1,832 | 172 | #1,122 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,404 | 138 | #1,307 |
| 2016 | 72 | #2,505 | 122 | #1,421 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,813 | 97 | #1,641 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,782 | 60 | #2,232 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,081 | 38 | #2,958 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,367 | 34 | #3,235 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,059 | 28 | #3,701 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 18 | #5,058 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,475 | 16 | #5,574 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,734 | |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,742 | 7 | #9,855 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 12 | #6,484 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,141 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 7 | #8,993 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 6 | #9,657 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 6 | #9,468 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #10,682 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 6 | #8,781 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,548 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,190 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 9 | #5,948 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #8,875 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 5 | #8,510 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,296 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,469 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,590 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #5,898 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 7 | #4,082 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #4,962 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Arrow a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,575 Americans recorded as Arrow, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Arrow: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arrow, and how old are they?
2,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,575 Americans ever recorded as Arrow. The median Arrow alive today is 7 years old; half are between 5 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 1,516 people named Arrow (528 women and girls, 988 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 214 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,290 |
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 Arrow born?
The states with the most babies named Arrow are California, New York and Texas, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #2,229 | 1.0× |
| New York | 6 | #1,592 | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,601 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,858 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,282 | 0.3× |
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 Arrow 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 Arrow
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 Arrow and names like it
- Compare Arrow and FinnleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sArrow peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arrow since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Arrow.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Arrow alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.