Meaning not yet researched.
Arbor: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,518 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 60% of babies named Arbor in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,518 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Arbor: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,518 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 32 (2025).
In 2025, 32 US boys were named Arbor, making it the 3,518th most common boys’ name of the year, up 92 places from #3,610 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 31 boys named Arbor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,518, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 32. For comparison, it was #10,762 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Arbor, making it the 5,746th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,067 places from #4,679 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 29 girls named Arbor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,593, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #5,302 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arbor in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 5 babies. In all, 655 US babies have been given the name, 61% of them girls and 39% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 331 babies named Arbor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 226 US boys were named Arbor; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Arber are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arber (416).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Arbor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,746 | 32 | #3,518 |
| 2024 | 29 | #4,679 | 31 | #3,610 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,056 | 18 | #5,267 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,483 | 28 | #3,885 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,720 | 31 | #3,587 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,276 | 25 | #4,027 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,019 | 22 | #4,491 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,020 | 13 | #6,369 |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,593 | 15 | #5,817 |
| 2016 | 43 | #3,593 | 11 | #7,179 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,302 | 6 | #10,762 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,020 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,080 | 8 | #8,851 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,367 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,467 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,160 | — | — |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,346 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,913 | — | — |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,851 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).