Meaning not yet researched.
Arjun: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 615 in 2025. Its best rank was #455 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #455 in 2014; #490 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arjun in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#490 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #455.
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Arjun: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 615 boys in 2025. Peak: #455 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 650 (2014).
In 2025, 615 US boys were named Arjun, making it the 490th most common boys’ name of the year, up 90 places from #580 in 2024. That is 124 more than the 491 boys named Arjun in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #455, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 650. For comparison, it was #504 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arjun in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 7 babies. In all, 12,176 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,486 babies named Arjun.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,372 US boys were named Arjun; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 615. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,777 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arjun ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #170 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Arjan (1,001 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arjean are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arjean (5).
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 Arjun in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 5 | #170 | — |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #215 | #347 |
| Washington | 35 | #228 | #320 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #252 | #160 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #281 | #262 |
| California | 116 | #314 | #324 |
| Virginia | 23 | #351 | #332 |
| Texas | 104 | #358 | #557 |
| Georgia | 27 | #415 | #351 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #422 | #586 |
| Michigan | 20 | #424 | #634 |
| Maryland | 11 | #440 | #392 |
| Illinois | 21 | #486 | #413 |
| New York | 31 | #514 | #651 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #593 | #661 |
| Missouri | 9 | #598 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #665 | #446 |
| Colorado | 7 | #684 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #712 | #511 |
| Arizona | 8 | #725 | #626 |
| Florida | 21 | #731 | #700 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,046 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 615 | #490 |
| 2024 | — | — | 491 | #580 |
| 2023 | — | — | 470 | #602 |
| 2022 | — | — | 506 | #578 |
| 2021 | — | — | 475 | #588 |
| 2020 | — | — | 501 | #560 |
| 2019 | — | — | 574 | #499 |
| 2018 | — | — | 600 | #487 |
| 2017 | — | — | 563 | #514 |
| 2016 | — | — | 577 | #516 |
| 2015 | — | — | 575 | #504 |
| 2014 | — | — | 650 | #455 |
| 2013 | — | — | 541 | #502 |
| 2012 | — | — | 544 | #491 |
| 2011 | — | — | 485 | #524 |
| 2010 | — | — | 377 | #641 |
| 2009 | — | — | 319 | #731 |
| 2008 | — | — | 293 | #759 |
| 2007 | — | — | 314 | #730 |
| 2006 | — | — | 298 | #724 |
| 2005 | — | — | 287 | #712 |
| 2004 | — | — | 250 | #744 |
| 2003 | — | — | 227 | #772 |
| 2002 | — | — | 166 | #962 |
| 2001 | — | — | 156 | #981 |
| 2000 | — | — | 123 | #1,128 |
| 1999 | — | — | 139 | #1,006 |
| 1998 | — | — | 131 | #1,032 |
| 1997 | — | — | 97 | #1,212 |
| 1996 | — | — | 104 | #1,141 |
| 1995 | — | — | 89 | #1,232 |
| 1994 | — | — | 85 | #1,268 |
| 1993 | — | — | 71 | #1,358 |
| 1992 | — | — | 64 | #1,431 |
| 1991 | — | — | 64 | #1,423 |
| 1990 | — | — | 64 | #1,395 |
| 1989 | — | — | 48 | #1,643 |
| 1988 | — | — | 41 | #1,708 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,218 |
| 1986 | — | — | 24 | #2,295 |
| 1985 | — | — | 25 | #2,173 |
| 1984 | — | — | 17 | #2,710 |
| 1983 | — | — | 22 | #2,275 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,117 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,909 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,270 |
| 1979 | — | — | 11 | #3,578 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,409 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #4,969 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,254 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,449 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,250 |
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).