Meaning not yet researched.
Arnie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #866 in 1910.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #866 in 1910; #6,171 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arnie in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,171 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #866.
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Arnie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #866 in 1910 · most boys in one year: 60 (1960).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Arnie, making it the 6,171st most common boys’ name of the year, up 2,199 places from #8,370 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 9 boys named Arnie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #866, reached in 1910. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 1960. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #1,313 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Arnie in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #1,296, reached in 1889. The most girls given the name in a single year was 13, in 1918. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arnie in 113 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1887 with 5 babies. In all, 2,323 US babies have been given the name, 10% of them girls and 90% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 378 babies named Arnie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US boys were named Arnie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Arnold (104,396 babies since 1880), Ernie (17,234 babies since 1880) and Arne (2,854 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arney, Arniya and Arnee 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: Arney (67), Arniya (12), Arnee (6).
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 Arnie in the open dataset we use.
Arnie is listed as a nickname for Arnold.
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 | — | — | 14 | #6,171 |
| 2024 | — | — | 9 | #8,370 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #6,919 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #9,916 |
| 2021 | — | — | 5 | #12,305 |
| 2020 | — | — | 10 | #7,555 |
| 2019 | — | — | 9 | #8,261 |
| 2018 | — | — | 6 | #10,874 |
| 2017 | — | — | 5 | #12,417 |
| 2016 | — | — | 7 | #9,742 |
| 2013 | — | — | 6 | #10,840 |
| 2010 | — | — | 6 | #10,874 |
| 2008 | — | — | 6 | #11,166 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #9,655 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #8,722 |
| 2002 | — | — | 6 | #9,471 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #7,576 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,354 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,199 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,893 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,125 |
| 1996 | — | — | 5 | #9,106 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,900 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,263 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,118 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,428 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,266 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,177 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,454 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,354 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,580 |
| 1983 | — | — | 12 | #3,425 |
| 1982 | — | — | 17 | #2,716 |
| 1981 | — | — | 16 | #2,789 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,569 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,439 |
| 1978 | — | — | 12 | #3,227 |
| 1977 | — | — | 13 | #3,050 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,488 |
| 1975 | — | — | 20 | #2,210 |
| 1974 | — | — | 11 | #3,140 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,025 |
| 1972 | — | — | 19 | #2,086 |
| 1971 | — | — | 27 | #1,708 |
| 1970 | — | — | 23 | #1,850 |
| 1969 | — | — | 25 | #1,644 |
| 1968 | — | — | 23 | #1,650 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,657 |
| 1966 | — | — | 39 | #1,197 |
| 1965 | — | — | 30 | #1,406 |
| 1964 | — | — | 39 | #1,237 |
| 1963 | — | — | 40 | #1,229 |
| 1962 | — | — | 55 | #1,029 |
| 1961 | — | — | 45 | #1,181 |
| 1960 | — | — | 60 | #984 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,299 | 51 | #1,081 |
| 1958 | — | — | 52 | #1,061 |
| 1957 | — | — | 47 | #1,118 |
| 1956 | — | — | 38 | #1,234 |
| 1955 | — | — | 20 | #1,727 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,529 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,713 | 23 | #1,593 |
| 1952 | 6 | #4,949 | 22 | #1,620 |
| 1951 | — | — | 23 | #1,553 |
| 1950 | — | — | 30 | #1,313 |
| 1949 | — | — | 27 | #1,410 |
| 1948 | — | — | 27 | #1,402 |
| 1947 | — | — | 31 | #1,319 |
| 1946 | — | — | 32 | #1,238 |
| 1945 | — | — | 20 | #1,501 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,710 | 25 | #1,331 |
| 1943 | — | — | 20 | #1,582 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,662 | 21 | #1,537 |
| 1941 | — | — | 24 | #1,375 |
| 1940 | — | — | 24 | #1,370 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,938 | 30 | #1,195 |
| 1938 | — | — | 24 | #1,366 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,291 | 29 | #1,234 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,230 | 21 | #1,465 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,253 | 29 | #1,248 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,467 | 20 | #1,555 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,833 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,462 | 14 | #2,003 |
| 1931 | 9 | #2,993 | 13 | #2,106 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,595 | 20 | #1,645 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,610 | 12 | #2,322 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,765 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,859 | 20 | #1,749 |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,339 | 14 | #2,197 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,687 | 22 | #1,628 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,678 | 24 | #1,579 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,665 | 21 | #1,699 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,787 | 22 | #1,650 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,051 | 25 | #1,510 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,110 | 14 | #2,231 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,024 | 21 | #1,629 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,531 | 27 | #1,376 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,371 | 20 | #1,648 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,508 | 39 | #1,028 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,269 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,225 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,222 | 25 | #999 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,380 | 10 | #1,623 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,459 | 7 | #1,396 |
| 1910 | — | — | 13 | #866 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,234 | 9 | #1,027 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,128 | 6 | #1,225 |
| 1904 | — | — | 7 | #971 |
| 1902 | — | — | 6 | #1,016 |
| 1901 | 7 | #1,346 | 6 | #953 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #890 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1887 | — | — | 5 | #937 |
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).