Arn
Arn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
- English
Meaning & Origin of Arn
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Arn is a name with a single cultural origin: English.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- English
The Story of Arn
American parents first put Arn on the record books as a baby boy name in 1949, with 7 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 1953, when 11 Arns were born — ranking #2,391 that year. About 58% of every Arn on record arrived during the 1950s, its defining decade. Arn last appeared in the published SSA data in 2013, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 60 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1940s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
Popularity by State
Variants & Related Forms of Arn
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Arn. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
Names that sound like Arn
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About the name Arn
Arn is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1949 and has accumulated 60 births in the dataset. Arn's peak popularity came in 1953 when it ranked #2,391. Use the chart and map above to compare Arn's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.