Arvid
Arvid was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,319 among boys’ names; 3,167 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arvid by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arvid mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arvid is “a male given name from the North Germanic languages [in turn from Old Norse].”
Borrowed from North Germanic (Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid, Norwegian Arvid).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arvid?
#8,319 among boys’ names, 2025
Arvid entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,319 in 2025.
100 babies in 1916, the peak
Arvid peaked in 1916, when 100 boys were given it, #575 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,319 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,053 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,311 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,801 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #5,356 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,999 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,571 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,888 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,895 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,818 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (110)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #12,393 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,942 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,167 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,603 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #10,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,195 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,354 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,255 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,115 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,200 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,275 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,524 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #4,667 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,679 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #1,992 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 8 | #2,999 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,484 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 13 | #2,316 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 17 | #1,969 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 15 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,912 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 20 | #1,807 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #1,644 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,233 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 25 | #1,569 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 18 | #1,845 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 27 | #1,466 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,284 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,432 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,242 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,184 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,297 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 40 | #1,126 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 40 | #1,147 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 56 | #878 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 37 | #1,058 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 42 | #1,004 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 77 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1942 | 55 | #889 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 60 | #818 | 0.05 |
| 1940 | 59 | #810 | 0.05 |
| 1939 | 63 | #763 | 0.06 |
| 1938 | 51 | #870 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 71 | #714 | 0.07 |
| 1936 | 55 | #825 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 52 | #872 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 50 | #889 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 54 | #843 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 57 | #841 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 55 | #858 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 65 | #802 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 70 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 73 | #752 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 71 | #780 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 63 | #832 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 66 | #814 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 60 | #897 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 75 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 67 | #831 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 73 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 91 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 79 | #704 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 69 | #782 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 72 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 100 | #575 | 0.11 |
| 1915 | 79 | #652 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 54 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 49 | #638 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 28 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 16 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 19 | #679 | 0.10 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 12 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,096 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 8 | #882 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,138 | 0.04 |
| 1902 | 7 | #935 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 9 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 9 | #907 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 10 | #663 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 11 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1897 | 7 | #853 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 12 | #644 | 0.10 |
| 1894 | 7 | #861 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 8 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1892 | 7 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1891 | 9 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 8 | #742 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 9 | #677 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 7 | #820 | 0.06 |
| 1887 | 11 | #547 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 7 | #765 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 5 | #899 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #917 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arvid a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arvid has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 110 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Arvid: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arvid, and how old are they?
An estimated 774 Americans named Arvid and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 55 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,207 people named Arvid (9 women and girls, 1,198 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 942 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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).
Where are babies named Arvid born?
The states with the most babies named Arvid are Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Minnesota and Wisconsin are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 630 | not ranked | 9.5× |
| Wisconsin | 200 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Michigan | 91 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Dakota | 90 | not ranked | 4.8× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| California | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 23 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Nebraska | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Arvid is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arvid is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 it was given 9.5 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 Arvid 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 Arvid
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 Arvid and names like it
- Compare Arvid and WaltonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sArvid peaked in 1916.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arvid since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Arvid.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Arvid alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.