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Arcadio vs Arcie

American parents have registered 1,125 Arcadios since 1880, against 70 Arcies. Arcadio is still ahead, with 6 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arcadio against Arcie, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arcadio Arcie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Arcadio for 104 years and Arcie for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Arcadio Arcie
Total US births 1,12570
Most in one year 2417
Babies in 2025 6under 5
Estimated living today 8106
Median age today 4279
Peak year 19881926
Best rank 2,437th boys2,708th girls
Rank in 2025 10,695thunranked
First recorded 19141915
Girls / boys 0 / 1,12553 / 17

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Arcies alive today are over 79; half the Arcadios are over 42. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arcadio and Arcie.