Arbor
Arbor reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 3,588, and has been recorded 655 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 650 Arbors are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arbor boys named Arbor
Girls and boys called Arbor
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 401 girls and 254 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 21 to 32.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 655
- Estimated living today
- 650
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 3,588th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 401 / 254
How old the living Arbors are
born that year still alive today
Of the 655 babies given the name since 1915, about 650 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 640 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Arbor is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Arbor peaked:
Arbor elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Arbor | 50 | 1,859th |
| Switzerland boys | Arbor | 14 | 1,226th |
| France boys | Arbor | 5 | 5,490th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Arbor: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arbor | 10 | 0.001% | 1,137th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arbor | 4 | 0.001% | 704th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Arbor against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.