Arnett
Arnett is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 653rd, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195135 births
- Best rank
- #653in 1897
- Since 1893
- 1,373people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,298 boys have been named Arnett in the United States since 1893, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1951, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 75 girls have also been given it, 5.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Arnett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 22 | |
| 1900s | 17 | |
| 1910s | 171 | |
| 1920s | 203 | |
| 1930s | 171 | |
| 1940s | 183 | |
| 1950s | 223 | |
| 1960s | 120 | |
| 1970s | 98 | |
| 1980s | 52 | |
| 1990s | 19 | |
| 2000s | 19 |
In 1951, its biggest year
Arnett was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1951 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1951.
Names that rose and fell with Arnett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Giffordpeak 1920
- Barnettpeak 1923
- Raoulpeak 1928
- Loringpeak 1922
- Garlandpeak 1922
- Rexfordpeak 1925
- Vernalpeak 1916
- Orispeak 1915
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.