Meaning not yet researched.
Arsenio: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #479 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #479 in 1989; #5,633 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arsenio in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,633 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #479.
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Arsenio: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #479 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 397 (1989).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Arsenio, making it the 5,633rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 47 places from #5,680 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 16 boys named Arsenio in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #479, reached in 1989. That year also had the most boys given the name: 397. For comparison, it was #5,075 in 2015 and #3,714 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arsenio in 104 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 2,207 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 781 babies named Arsenio.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 181 US boys were named Arsenio; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 23. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Arsen, Arcenio and Arsenia 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Arsen (642), Arcenio (176), Arsenia (121), Arcenia (116), Arseniy (104), Arseny (35).
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 Arsenio 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 | — | — | 16 | #5,633 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,680 |
| 2023 | — | — | 22 | #4,618 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,718 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,375 |
| 2020 | — | — | 17 | #5,253 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,573 |
| 2018 | — | — | 21 | #4,613 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,820 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,065 |
| 2015 | — | — | 18 | #5,075 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,022 |
| 2013 | — | — | 22 | #4,331 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,873 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,216 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #5,757 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,593 |
| 2008 | — | — | 24 | #4,151 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,294 |
| 2006 | — | — | 15 | #5,545 |
| 2005 | — | — | 11 | #6,674 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,000 |
| 2003 | — | — | 15 | #5,053 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,119 |
| 2001 | — | — | 10 | #6,490 |
| 2000 | — | — | 12 | #5,603 |
| 1999 | — | — | 9 | #6,574 |
| 1998 | — | — | 18 | #3,858 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,679 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,301 |
| 1995 | — | — | 17 | #3,711 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,107 |
| 1993 | — | — | 22 | #3,052 |
| 1992 | — | — | 47 | #1,780 |
| 1991 | — | — | 46 | #1,745 |
| 1990 | — | — | 188 | #744 |
| 1989 | — | — | 397 | #479 |
| 1988 | — | — | 124 | #854 |
| 1987 | — | — | 83 | #1,047 |
| 1986 | — | — | 21 | #2,518 |
| 1985 | — | — | 27 | #2,075 |
| 1984 | — | — | 53 | #1,266 |
| 1983 | — | — | 37 | #1,598 |
| 1982 | — | — | 12 | #3,502 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,043 |
| 1980 | — | — | 13 | #3,272 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,185 |
| 1978 | — | — | 13 | #3,080 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,404 |
| 1976 | — | — | 15 | #2,713 |
| 1975 | — | — | 9 | #3,680 |
| 1974 | — | — | 16 | #2,466 |
| 1973 | — | — | 10 | #3,241 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,545 |
| 1971 | — | — | 11 | #2,985 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,539 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,080 |
| 1968 | — | — | 12 | #2,451 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,005 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,472 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #2,997 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1963 | — | — | 8 | #3,057 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,119 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,550 |
| 1960 | — | — | 15 | #2,125 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,306 |
| 1958 | — | — | 11 | #2,515 |
| 1957 | — | — | 14 | #2,192 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,371 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,574 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,156 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,769 |
| 1951 | — | — | 8 | #2,857 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,714 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,617 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,572 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,527 |
| 1940 | — | — | 9 | #2,490 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,133 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,191 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,692 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,307 |
| 1935 | — | — | 12 | #2,136 |
| 1934 | — | — | 14 | #1,934 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #1,999 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,327 |
| 1931 | — | — | 14 | #2,006 |
| 1930 | — | — | 12 | #2,307 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,780 |
| 1928 | — | — | 12 | #2,401 |
| 1927 | — | — | 18 | #1,871 |
| 1926 | — | — | 18 | #1,846 |
| 1925 | — | — | 10 | #2,759 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,655 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,846 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,810 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,546 |
| 1920 | — | — | 9 | #2,981 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,390 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,577 |
| 1916 | — | — | 8 | #2,940 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,420 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,515 |
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).