Arsene
Arsene was given to 8 boys in 2025, #8,977 among boys’ names; 70 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arsene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Arsene?
#8,977 among boys’ names, 2025
Arsene entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,977 in 2025.
10 babies in 1920, the peak
Arsene peaked in 1920, when 10 boys were given it, #2,774 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #8,977 | 4.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,935 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,225 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,708 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,249 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,321 | 3.4 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,544 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,774 | 9.4 |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,237 | 7.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,289 | 14.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arsene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arsene has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arsene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arsene, and how old are they?
An estimated 37 Americans named Arsene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 335 people named Arsene (14 women and girls, 321 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30.5 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,381 babies since 1880, Arsene is the third most given (2.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 24 babies (33%), the second 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.
More about Arsene and names like it
- Compare Arsene and ArsenioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sArsene peaked in 1920.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Arsene.
- Names starting with AMost given first.