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)
The name Arnold is the #658 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,170 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #300 (93.5% percentile) for all time with 103,620 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,166 (9.6% percentile) for all time with 550 births since 1912.
Arnold has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Arnold has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Arnold reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 83.6% percentile (ranked #91) with 1,742 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 2,012 births per million (ranked 82.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arnold ranks #811 for boys (11.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arnold reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #576) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnold".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arnold. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Arnold is pronounced as AHR-nuhld, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-nohld, at 9.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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.
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