girls:
33 births since 1976
#5683 (1st percentile)
boys:
46 births since 2011
#4540 (1st percentile)
overall:
79 births since 1976
#7660 (1st percentile)
The name Arsha is the #7,660 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 79 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,540 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 2011. For girls, it ranks #5,683 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 33 births since 1976.
Arsha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for girls and 2011 for boys). Birth data for Arsha is available in 12 out of the 48 years between 1976 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.
The name Arsha has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.2% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Arsha were boys. Interestingly, until around 2011, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1976 to 2010), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2011 to 2023).
For boys, Arsha reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #916) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Arsha ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 55.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Arsha reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arsha".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Arsha is pronounced as AHR-shuh, which has 2 syllables.
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