Arnold

girls:

550 births since 1912

#5166 (10th percentile)

boys:

103.6k births since 1880

#300 (93rd percentile)

overall:

104.2k births since 1880

#658 (92nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnold".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
550
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
1929
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
2.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#465
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
103,620
Peak Births
2,014
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
83.6%
Current Percentile
11.0%
Peak Rank
#89
Current Rank
#811
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Arnold

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arnold. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.7% confident that Arnold is pronounced as AHR-nuhld. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-nohld, at 9.3% confidence.

AHR-nuhld (2 syllables)
Verified
90.7% confidence
AA1 R N AH0 L D
AHR-nohld (2 syllables)
9.3% confidence
AA1 R N OW0 L D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Arnold. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Arnold, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AHR-nehl (2 syllables)
3 names 3.1k births
AA1 R N EH0 L
AHR-nuhl (2 syllables)
3 names 3k births
AA1 R N AH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R N AH0 L D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.