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Arno vs Arnulfo

American parents have registered 6,316 Arnulfos since 1880, against 1,723 Arnos. Arnulfo is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arno against Arnulfo, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arno 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 123 years in which either name was published, Arnulfo for 97 years and Arno for 26 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Arno Arnulfo
Total US births 1,7236,316
Most in one year 55119
Babies in 2025 2729
Estimated living today 7204,900
Median age today 4839
Peak year 19151992
Best rank 823rd boys987th boys
Rank in 2025 3,949th3,757th
First recorded 18881909
Girls / boys 0 / 1,7230 / 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 Arnos alive today are over 48; half the Arnulfos are over 39. That is 9 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: Arno and Arnulfo.