Arjun
The boy's name Arjun has been in the national records since 1967, with 12,176 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 490th. About 12,000 Arjuns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Arjun
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,176
- Estimated living today
- 12,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 455th
- Rank in 2025
- 490th
- First recorded
- 1967
How old the living Arjuns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,176 babies given the name since 1967, about 12,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 9,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 the name comes from
Origin Sanskrit
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Arjuns
- Allu Arjun (born 1982)Indian actor
- Arjun Rampal (born 1972)Indian film actor, producer, model and television host
- Arjun Kapoor (born 1985)Indian actor
- Arjun Appadurai (born 1949)social-cultural anthropologist
- Arjun Sarja (born 1962)Indian actor, producer and director
- Arjun Bijlani (born 1982)Indian television actor
- Arjun Munda (born 1968)Indian politician
- Arjun Maini (born 1997)Indian racing driver
People named Arjun with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arjun is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arjun is most concentrated in New Jersey (3.7×), Washington (2.5×), California (2.4×), Virginia (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Arjun peaked:
Arjun elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Arjun | 3,997 | 255th |
| France boys | Arjun | 155 | 1,733rd |
| Switzerland boys | Arjun | 73 | 898th |
| Scotland boys | Arjun | 61 | 389th |
| Ireland boys | Arjun | 56 | 414th |
| Belgium boys | Arjun | 7 | 1,114th |
| Poland boys | Arjun | 4 birth registrations | 736th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Arjun | 3 | 390th |
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.
Arjun: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arjun | 55 | 0.004% | 737th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arjun | 17 | 0.004% | 443rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Arjun | 1 | 0.002% | 173rd |
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.
Arjun among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Arjun | 14 | 21 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Arjun against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.