girls:
22 births since 1962
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
809 births since 1913
#3778 (18th percentile)
overall:
831 births since 1913
#6908 (11th percentile)
The name Arnel is the #6,908 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 831 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,778 (17.6% percentile) for all time with 809 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1962.
Arnel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Arnel is available in 81 out of the 109 years between 1913 and 2021 (81 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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.
The name Arnel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arnel reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #653) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 17 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Arnel reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #761) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1963.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Arnel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Arnel is pronounced as ahr-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-nehl, at 40.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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