girls:
235 births since 1889
#5481 (4th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1887
#2765 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1887
#5504 (29th percentile)
The name Arnie is the #5,504 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,300 recorded births since 1887. This represents the 28.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,765 (39.7% percentile) for all time with 2,065 births since 1887. For girls, it ranks #5,481 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 235 births since 1889.
Arnie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1887 (1887 for boys and 1889 for girls). Birth data for Arnie is available in 111 out of the 137 years between 1887 and 2023 (110 years for boys and 33 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 Arnie has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Arnie were boys.
For boys, Arnie reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #602) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 62 births per million (ranked 2.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arnie ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arnie reached its peak popularity in 1911, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #405) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 28 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arnie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.1% confident that Arnie is pronounced as AHR-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-NEE, at 11.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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