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Arba

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Arba has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1898. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1898, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 75% boys, 25% girls all-time.

Babies named Arba, 1938

1 in 443,000

Arba over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Arba over time

In 1938, Arba went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

18981938

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Arba: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arba means

Arba is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arba is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 47 boys were recorded with the name Arba between 1898 and 1938. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1898; its best national rank was #805 in 1898.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Arba between 1916 and 1937. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1937; its best national rank was #2,575 in 1937.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arba?

Arba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1938, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1938
1 in 443,000
5 of 2,212,569 births
Among boys only
1 in 222,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1938
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
306,728 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arba sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1938 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 306,728 children born in 1938 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arbas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arba was born before 1923 — so the typical Arba is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1920s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Arba rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1898 (8)
Years since peak
127
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#805
1898

Spellings of Arba

Arba is not the most common spelling — Ira is, with 19.9% against Arba's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Arba around the world

Where Arba ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2014–2014
    #5,691
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Arba by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#805
1898
Peak year
1898
8 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
1938
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,575
1937
Peak year
1937
11 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1937
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arba

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ArbaazArbiArborArbinOrbaArbazArbyArberArbenArbonArbie

Sibling names for Arba

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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