girls:
75 births since 1917
#5641 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1893
#3317 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1893
#6370 (18th percentile)
The name Arnett is the #6,370 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,373 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 17.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,317 (27.6% percentile) for all time with 1,298 births since 1893. For girls, it ranks #5,641 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1917.
Arnett first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Arnett is available in 87 out of the 114 years between 1893 and 2006 (87 years for boys and 13 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 Arnett has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arnett reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #578) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 90 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
For girls, Arnett reached its peak popularity in 1959, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #762) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1968.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnett".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Arnett. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 30.4% confident that Arnett is pronounced as AHR-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-NEHT, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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