Arkie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arkie has been given to 220 babies in the U.S. since 1883. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% girls, 17% boys all-time.
Babies named Arkie, 1932
1 in 422,000
Arkie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Arkie over time
In 1942, Arkie went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Arkie?
Arkie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1932, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1932
- 1 in 422,000
- 5 of 2,111,250 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1932
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 292,683 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arkie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1932 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 292,683 children born in 1932 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arkie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arkies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arkie was born before 1915 — so the typical Arkie is around 110 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 32.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 65.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (60).
Is Arkie 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1917 (13)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 47.5% average annual change
Spellings of Arkie
Arkie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 27.9% against Arkie'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.
Where Arkie is used
Across 1910–2025, Arkie was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 291,821 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 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. Arkie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arkie around the world
Where Arkie 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.
- South Australia1996–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arkie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Arkie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arkie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.