Meaning not yet researched.
Arwen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 158 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,278 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,278 in 2023; #1,384 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Arwen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,384 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,278.
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Arwen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 158 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,278 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 179 (2023).
In 2025, 158 US girls were named Arwen, making it the 1,384th most common girls’ name of the year, down 49 places from #1,335 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 171 girls named Arwen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,278, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 179. For comparison, it was #1,797 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Arwen in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 3,299 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,062 babies named Arwen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,454 US girls were named Arwen; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 179. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,173 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Arwen ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #594 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Arwyn, Arwin and Arwynn 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: Arwyn (721), Arwin (259), Arwynn (33).
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 Arwen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 5 | #594 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #663 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #718 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #806 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #933 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,058 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,123 | #1,434 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,255 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,279 | #1,443 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,293 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,359 | #1,830 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 2024 | 171 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2023 | 179 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2021 | 148 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 2019 | 144 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 2018 | 123 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,864 | — | — |
| 2016 | 129 | #1,661 | — | — |
| 2015 | 116 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 2014 | 104 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,904 | — | — |
| 2012 | 79 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,484 | — | — |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,365 | — | — |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,377 | — | — |
| 2008 | 86 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 2006 | 96 | #2,051 | — | — |
| 2005 | 150 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2004 | 166 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 2003 | 117 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,342 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,253 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,977 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,514 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,730 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,620 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,662 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,337 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,927 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,534 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,627 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,406 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,613 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,484 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,185 | — | — |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,931 | — | — |
| 1980 | 34 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,003 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,721 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,885 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,435 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,896 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,100 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,883 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,552 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,078 | — | — |
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).