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Arne vs Arnel

American parents have registered 2,854 Arnes since 1880, against 830 Arnels. Arne is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arne against Arnel, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arne Arnel

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 121 years in which either name was published, Arne for 86 years and Arnel for 35 years. The lead changed hands 10 times.

Side by side

  Arne Arnel
Total US births 2,854830
Most in one year 6923
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 1,300620
Median age today 6336
Peak year 19161970
Best rank 724th boys1,989th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714thunranked
First recorded 19031913
Girls / boys 0 / 2,85422 / 808

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 Arnes alive today are over 63; half the Arnels are over 36. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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