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Arcadia

#5,933 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Arcadius

Arcadia has been given to 660 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #5,933 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Arcadia, 2025

1 in 166,000

Arcadia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arcadia: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Arcadius

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arcadia means

Arcadia is a feminine form of Arcadius.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Arcadia → Arcadius. The family’s meaning is “of Arcadia”, recorded in English with the source elements Arkádios.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arcadius.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 660 girls were recorded with the name Arcadia between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,583 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,343 in 2020 to #5,933 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,048 in 2015 to #5,933 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 Arcadia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,933
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arcadia 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arcadia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arcadias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arcadia was born before 2008 — so the typical Arcadia is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
625
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Choose a decade

2010s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (192).

Is Arcadia 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
+489
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+410
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+115
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.95×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.4%
Peak was 2018 (28)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,583
1932

Spellings of Arcadia

Arcadia is not the most common spelling — Acacia is, with 36.1% against Arcadia's 5.5%.

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 Arcadia is used

Across 1910–2025, Arcadia was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Arcadia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arcadia around the world

Where Arcadia 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
    2018–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025

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

Arcadia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,933
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 410
Best rank ever
#3,583
1932
Peak year
2018
28 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
660
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Arcadia

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

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Sibling names for Arcadia

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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