Arvind — boys' name
570 babies named Arvind in U.S. Social Security records since 1970, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
38% of everyone ever named Arvind was born in this single decade.
26 babies were named Arvind in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arvind
The Social Security Administration has registered 570 babies named Arvind between 1970 and 2022, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arvind currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 26 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arvind performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arvind shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 35 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Arvind in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arvind 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 570 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.
Arvind at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arvind popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1970
- Peak year (2001)
- 26
- Annual births at peak — across 53 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
570 total births across 53 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 26 births in a single year.
Arvind by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 216 births that decade — 38% of Arvind's all-time total
Arvind decade highlights
- Peak decade 216 births
- Runner-up 147 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Arvind's strongest decade
216 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 38% of all-time use.
Arvind by state
Where Arvind concentrates geographically — total births since 1970
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 35 | 6.1% |
| #2 | New York | | 26 | 4.6% |
| #3 | New Jersey | | 5 | 0.9% |
35 of 570 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 6.1% of nationwide
- New York 4.6% of nationwide
- New Jersey 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1970–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.