boys:
6.3k births since 1909
#1490 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.3k births since 1909
#3434 (56th percentile)
The name Arnulfo is the #3,434 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,270 recorded births since 1909. This represents the 55.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,490 (67.5% percentile) for all time with 6,270 births since 1909.
Arnulfo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1909 (first recorded for boys in 1909). Birth data for Arnulfo is available in 112 out of the 115 years between 1909 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Arnulfo reached its peak popularity in 1949, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #498) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 57 births per million (ranked 14.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Arnulfo ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 24.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arnulfo".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Arnulfo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Arnulfo is pronounced as ahr-NUEL-foh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-NOOL-foh, at 20.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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