Arena

#11,035 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Arena has been given to 494 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #11,035 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Arena, 2025

1 in 414,000

Arena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Arena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,035
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arena 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arena was born before 1997 — so the typical Arena is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
17.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
369
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 17.6% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Arena 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
−3,404
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,442
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,667
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
57.1%
Peak was 2014 (14)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,291
1888

Spellings of Arena

Arena is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 19.4% against Arena's <0.01%.

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.

Arena around the world

Where Arena 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
    2010–2013
    #4,050
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1950–1950
    #436
    in 1950

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Arena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,035
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,442
Best rank ever
#1,291
1888
Peak year
2014
14 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
494
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Arena

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

Sibling names for Arena

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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