Arnab

Boys' name

Agitated, restless, through अर्णव

Arnab has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 1978. 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 2011, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Arnab, 2016

1 in 734,000

Arnab over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arnab: meaning, origin, and history

Agitated, restless, through अर्णव

Bengali and Sanskrit

What Arnab means

Arnab belongs to the name family reached through Arnab → अर्णव. Its meaning is “agitated, restless”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Transliteration of Bengali অর্ণব (ornob), from Sanskrit अर्णव (arṇava). Doublet of Arnav.

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Origin, language, and formation

Arnab is used in English. Its origins include Bengali and Sanskrit.

Arnab comes through Sanskrit अर्णव.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include অর, Arnav and अर्णव.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 32 boys were recorded with the name Arnab between 1978 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2011; its best national rank was #5,842 in 1978.

How common is Arnab?

Arnab had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016: 1 in 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Arnab 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arnab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arnabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arnab was born before 2011 — so the typical Arnab is around 14 today.

Median birth year: 2011; About 14 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 53.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 84.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 32; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 53.1% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Arnab 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2011 (6)
Years since peak: 14; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,842; 1978

Spellings of Arnab

Arnab is not the most common spelling — Aryan is, with 13.7% against Arnab's 0.05%.

Aryan13.7%8,106
Arian11.4%6,712
Arman7.9%4,635
Arnav6.1%3,585
Arlan5.8%3,434
Aram5.6%3,310
Adnan5.1%2,996
Anas4.9%2,906

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.

Arnab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #5,842; 1978
Peak year: 2011; 6 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 32
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Arnab

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

Arnik Arnit Arnes Arnol Arnaz Arnis Arnaaz Arney Arnesh Arnet Arnon Arnald Arnaud Arnim Arnay Arnette Arnez Arnt Arness Arner Arnob Arn Arny Pranab

Sibling names for Arnab

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Elin Lilyanna Samiyah Kamille Kyndall Lillianna Leigha Rylan

For a brother

Jadiel Jorden Semaj Giovani Xzavier Jerimiah Rylee Konnor

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