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Arsenio

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Arsenio is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 479th, in 1989.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
160.00% of boys
Peak year
1989397 births
Best rank
#479in 1989
Since 1913
2,191people given the name
Babies named Arsenio, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

2,191 boys have been named Arsenio in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1989, with 397 births.

The name has all but left use: 16 births in 2024, against 397 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 36%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Arsenio
1910s33
1920s110
1930s115
1940s28
1950s85
1960s106
1970s120
1980s781
1990s393
2000s139
2010s182
2020s99

In 1989, its biggest year

Arsenio was the 479th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1989 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1989.

Names that rose and fell with Arsenio

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.