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Arnel vs Arnoldo

American parents have registered 4,713 Arnoldos since 1880, against 830 Arnels. Arnoldo is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arnel against Arnoldo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arnel Arnoldo

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 111 years in which either name was published, Arnoldo for 103 years and Arnel for 8 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Arnel Arnoldo
Total US births 8304,713
Most in one year 2394
Babies in 2025 under 526
Estimated living today 6203,900
Median age today 3638
Peak year 19701992
Best rank 1,989th boys1,135th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked4,050th
First recorded 19131914
Girls / boys 22 / 8080 / 4,713

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 Arnoldos alive today are over 38; half the Arnels are over 36. That is 2 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: Arnel and Arnoldo.