boys:
2.2k births since 1913
#2701 (41st percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1913
#5615 (27th percentile)
The name Arsenio is the #5,615 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,175 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 27.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,701 (41.1% percentile) for all time with 2,175 births since 1913.
Arsenio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Arsenio is available in 102 out of the 111 years between 1913 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, Arsenio reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 42.7% percentile (ranked #434) with 189 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 189 births per million (ranked 42.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arsenio ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 6.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arsenio".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arsenio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.5% confident that Arsenio is pronounced as ahr-SEH-nee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-SEE-nee-oh, at 32.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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