In 2025, 29 US boys were named Arnulfo, making it the 3,762nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,696 places from #5,458 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 17 boys named Arnulfo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #707, reached in 1951. The most boys given the name in a single year was 119, in 1992. For comparison, it was #3,517 in 2015 and #819 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arnulfo in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1909 with 5 babies. In all, 6,316 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 989 babies named Arnulfo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 256 US boys were named Arnulfo; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Arnolfo are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.