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Arbor

#5,745 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Arbi with the suffix -or

Arbor has been given to 655 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #5,745 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 43 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 61% girls, 39% boys all-time.

Babies named Arbor, 2025

1 in 158,000

Arbor over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Arbor over time

In 2025, Arbor went to 40% girls and 60% boys.

19152025

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.

Arbor: meaning, origin, and history

Arbi with the suffix -or

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arbor means

Arbor is formed from Arbi with the suffix -or.

Origin, language, and formation

Arbor is used in Albanian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arbi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 401 girls were recorded with the name Arbor between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 2016; its best national rank was #3,593 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,274 in 2020 to #5,745 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,300 in 2015 to #5,745 in 2025.

In the United States, 254 boys were recorded with the name Arbor between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,517 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,024 in 2020 to #3,517 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,756 in 2015 to #3,517 in 2025.

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 Arbor?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,745
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arbor sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arbor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arbors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arbor was born before 2019 — so the typical Arbor is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
401
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.4% of all recorded uses (230).

Is Arbor 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
−1,068
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,471
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−445
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.8%
Peak was 2016 (43)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,593
2016

Spellings of Arbor

Arbor is not the most common spelling — Amber is, with 97.7% against Arbor's 0.10%.

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 Arbor is used

Across 1910–2025, Arbor was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,232,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —
  2. 2Ohio1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Arbor has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arbor around the world

Where Arbor 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
    2020–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2022
    #5,490
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #2,026
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arbor by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,745
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,471
Best rank ever
#3,593
2016
Peak year
2016
43 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
401
Count in 2025
21

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,517
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 507
Best rank ever
#3,517
2025
Peak year
2025
32 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
254
Count in 2025
32

Names similar to Arbor

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

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Sibling names for Arbor

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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