Arsema vs Arsen
American parents have registered 707 Arsemas since 1880, against 642 Arsens. But in 2025 it was Arsen that was commoner, 36 babies to 28.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Arsema Arsen
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 37 years in which either name was published, Arsen for 22 years and Arsema for 15 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
Side by side
| Arsema | Arsen | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 707 | 642 |
| Most in one year | 60 | 39 |
| Babies in 2025 | 28 | 36 |
| Estimated living today | 700 | 620 |
| Median age today | 9 | 10 |
| Peak year | 2015 | 2024 |
| Best rank | 2,890th girls | 3,104th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 4,758th | 3,240th |
| First recorded | 1995 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 707 / 0 | 0 / 642 |
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.
Where each one is strongest
- Arsema Maryland (14.2×), Washington (10.6×), Virginia (5.4×)
- Arsen California (9.3×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Arsema | Arsen |
|---|---|---|
| France | 40 | 310 |
| England and Wales | 153 | 40 |
| Belgium | 6 | 43 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arsema and Arsen.