Arch
Arch is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 37 births. Its best rank was 199th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 370.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 188061 births
- Best rank
- #199in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,526people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,526 boys have been named Arch in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1880, with 61 births.
The name has all but left use: 37 births in 2024, against 61 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arch | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 415 | |
| 1890s | 236 | |
| 1900s | 138 | |
| 1910s | 344 | |
| 1920s | 431 | |
| 1930s | 245 | |
| 1940s | 206 | |
| 1950s | 176 | |
| 1960s | 119 | |
| 1970s | 78 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 7 | |
| 2000s | 10 | |
| 2010s | 18 | |
| 2020s | 98 |
In 1880, its biggest year
Arch was the 199th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1880 were John, William, James, Charles and George. See all of 1880.
Names that rose and fell with Arch
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Olepeak 1881
- Greenpeak 1927
- Perleypeak 1915
- Bertpeak 1918
- Pinkpeak 1919
- Rollapeak 1916
- Chaspeak 1915
- Isompeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.