Arnel vs Arnulfo
American parents have registered 6,316 Arnulfos since 1880, against 830 Arnels. Arnulfo is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Arnel Arnulfo
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 114 years in which either name was published, Arnulfo for 113 years and Arnel for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.
Side by side
| Arnel | Arnulfo | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 830 | 6,316 |
| Most in one year | 23 | 119 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 29 |
| Estimated living today | 620 | 4,900 |
| Median age today | 36 | 39 |
| Peak year | 1970 | 1992 |
| Best rank | 1,989th boys | 987th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 3,757th |
| First recorded | 1913 | 1909 |
| Girls / boys | 22 / 808 | 0 / 6,316 |
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 Arnulfos alive today are over 39; half the Arnels are over 36. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Arnel California (9.0×)
- Arnulfo Texas (8.4×), California (3.0×), Arizona (1.9×)
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 Arnulfo.