boys:
3.1k births since 1880
#2229 (51st percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1880
#4849 (37th percentile)
The name Arvid is the #4,849 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,150 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 37.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,229 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,150 births since 1880.
Arvid has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Arvid is available in 108 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Arvid reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 19.0% percentile (ranked #407) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 108 births per million (ranked 19.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Arvid ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Arvid".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Arvid. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Arvid is pronounced as AHR-vihd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ahr-VIHD, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like AA1 R V IH0 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.
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