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Arben

Boys' name

Albanian

Arben has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 1993, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Arben, 2021

1 in 678,000

Arben over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arben: meaning, origin, and history

Albanian

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arben means

Arben means “Albanian”, associated with arbën.

Origin, language, and formation

Arben is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Arben between 1978 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1993; its best national rank was #3,664 in 1993.

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 Arben?

Arben had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 678,000
5 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 350,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arben 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arben. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arbens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arben was born before 1996 — so the typical Arben is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
38.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
48.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 38.9% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Arben 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 1993 (17)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,664
1993

Spellings of Arben

Arben is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 17.6% against Arben'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.

Where Arben is used

Across 1910–2025, Arben was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 222,064 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arben has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arben around the world

Where Arben 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
    2000–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2024–2025
    #4,129
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1983–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Arben 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
#3,664
1993
Peak year
1993
17 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arben

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

ArborArberArbieEsbenArbaazArbyTorbenAlbenKobenCobenRobenTobenSabenArbinArbazArbaCorbenAbenJabenKorbenHabenRobbenOrbenEben

Sibling names for Arben

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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