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Arjuna

#7,714 in 2025Boys' name

White, shining; silver, through अर्जुन

Arjuna has been given to 324 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #7,714 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Arjuna, 2025

1 in 332,000

Arjuna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arjuna: meaning, origin, and history

White, shining; silver, through अर्जुन

Sanskrit

What Arjuna means

Arjuna belongs to the name family reached through Arjuna → अर्जुन. Its meaning is “white, shining; silver”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arjuna is used in English, Balinese, Indonesian, Javanese, Old Javanese and Tocharian B. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Arjuna comes through Sanskrit अर्जुन.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अर्जुन.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Balinese, Arjuna is pronounced /ar.d͡ʒu.nə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 319 boys were recorded with the name Arjuna between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2013; its best national rank was #3,846 in 1977.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,013 in 2015 to #7,714 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Arjuna between 2021 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2021; its best national rank was #15,521 in 2021.

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 Arjuna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,714
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arjuna 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arjuna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arjunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arjuna was born before 2007 — so the typical Arjuna is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
29.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
319
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2010s — 29.8% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Arjuna 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,701
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2013 (15)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,846
1977

Spellings of Arjuna

Arjuna is not the most common spelling — Arjun is, with 81.5% against Arjuna's 2.1%.

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 Arjuna is used

Across 1910–2025, Arjuna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,089,544 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Arjuna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arjuna around the world

Where Arjuna 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
    1998–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    1991–2017
    #6,559
    in 2017
  • Canada
    2010–2010
    #2,676
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1979–1991
    #481
    in 1991

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

Arjuna by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,714
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,846
1977
Peak year
2013
15 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
319
Count in 2025
10

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,521
2021
Peak year
2021
5 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arjuna

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

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Sibling names for Arjuna

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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