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Arjen

#8,971 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Arjan

Arjen has been given to 398 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #8,971 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Arjen, 2025

1 in 414,000

Arjen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arjen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Arjan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arjen means

Arjen is a variant of Arjan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Arjen is a variant of Arjan. Arjan has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arjan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 398 boys were recorded with the name Arjen between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,810 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,547 in 2020 to #8,971 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,810 in 2015 to #8,971 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.

How common is Arjen?

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 boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,971
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arjen 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 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 Arjen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arjens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arjen was born before 2016 — so the typical Arjen is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
69.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
398
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Choose a decade

2010s — 69.6% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Arjen 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
−2,482
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,424
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,161
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.19×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.0%
Peak was 2015 (42)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,810
2015

Spellings of Arjen

Arjen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 21.8% against Arjen's 0.03%.

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 Arjen is used

Across 1910–2025, Arjen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 449,184 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Arjen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arjen around the world

Where Arjen 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
    2004–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #468
    in 1960

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

Arjen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,971
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,424
Best rank ever
#2,810
2015
Peak year
2015
42 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
398
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Arjen

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

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Sibling names for Arjen

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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