Arnold
Arnold is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 89th, in 1916.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19242,014 births
- Best rank
- #89in 1916
- Since 1880
- 103,720people given the name
The story in the numbers
103,720 boys have been named Arnold in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 2,014 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 2,014 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1939, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 125 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arnold | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 404 | |
| 1890s | 859 | |
| 1900s | 1,546 | |
| 1910s | 12,586 | |
| 1920s | 19,531 | |
| 1930s | 17,888 | |
| 1940s | 16,038 | |
| 1950s | 13,195 | |
| 1960s | 9,497 | |
| 1970s | 3,687 | |
| 1980s | 2,578 | |
| 1990s | 2,695 | |
| 2000s | 1,695 | |
| 2010s | 999 | |
| 2020s | 522 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Arnold was the 95th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1924 were Robert, John, William, James and Charles. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Arnold
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Wilbertpeak 1922
- Lylepeak 1922
- Delbertpeak 1932
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Normanpeak 1928
- Elroypeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.