boys:
11.1k births since 1967
#1100 (76th percentile)
overall:
11.1k births since 1967
#2500 (68th percentile)
The name Arjun is the #2,500 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,070 recorded births since 1967. This represents the 67.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,100 (76.0% percentile) for all time with 11,070 births since 1967.
Arjun first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1967 (first recorded for boys in 1967). Birth data for Arjun is available in 50 out of the 57 years between 1967 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, Arjun reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 53.3% percentile (ranked #423) with 317 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 317 births per million (ranked 53.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Arjun ranks #513 for boys (43.7% percentile) with 256 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arjun".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Arjun. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Arjun is pronounced as AHR-juhn, which has 2 syllables.
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