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Arjun

#490 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Arjuna

Arjun has been given to 12,176 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #490 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 650 recorded.

Babies named Arjun, 2025

1 in 5,390

Arjun over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arjun: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arjuna

Sanskrit

What Arjun means

Arjun is a form of Arjuna.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Arjun → Arjuna → अर्जुन. The family’s meaning is “white, shining; silver”, recorded in Sanskrit with the source elements h₂érǵ-u-nom.

Origin, language, and formation

Arjun is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Arjun comes through Hindi अर्जुन.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arjuna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Arjun is pronounced /ˈɑːɹ.d͡ʒʊn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,176 boys were recorded with the name Arjun between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 650 in 2014; its best national rank was #455 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #560 in 2020 to #490 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #504 in 2015 to #490 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 Arjun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 5,390
615 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 2,780
0.04% of boys
Rank, 2025
#490
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
3,738 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arjun 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 1002%
School of 5009%

Put another way: gather 3,738 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arjun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arjuns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arjun was born before 2014 — so the typical Arjun is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
12,176
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (5,486).

Is Arjun 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
+90
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+70
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+14
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.6%
Peak was 2014 (650)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#455
2014

Spellings of Arjun

Arjun is not the most common spelling — Aron is, with 17.3% against Arjun's 9.9%.

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 Arjun is used

Across 2016–2025, Arjun was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 935 boys, against 1 in 2,687 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 in 33,333).

3107 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 935
  2. 2Washington1 in 1,190
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 1,563
  4. 4Virginia1 in 1,724
  5. 5California1 in 1,786
  6. 6Connecticut1 in 1,961
  7. 7Illinois1 in 2,273
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 2,500

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.

Geographically, Arjun is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 81% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Arjun around the world

Where Arjun 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
    1996–2025
    #325
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1998–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2009–2009
    #390
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2009–2025
    #509
    in 2025
  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,529
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #252
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Arjun

People whose public names include Arjun, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Arjun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#490
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 70
Best rank ever
#455
2014
Peak year
2014
650 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,176
Count in 2025
615

Names similar to Arjun

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

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Names with a curve like Arjun

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Arjun, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Arjun

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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