boys:
276 births since 1986
#4310 (6th percentile)
overall:
276 births since 1986
#7463 (4th percentile)
The name Arish is the #7,463 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 276 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,310 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 276 births since 1986.
Arish first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (first recorded for boys in 1986). Birth data for Arish is available in 20 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Arish reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #893) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arish ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 72.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arish".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arish. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.6% confident that Arish is pronounced as AH-rihsh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-RIHSH, at 22.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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