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Arnaud

Boys' name

Eagle + ruler

Arnaud has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1981, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Arnaud, 2001

1 in 748,000

Arnaud over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arnaud: meaning, origin, and history

Eagle + ruler

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arnaud means

Arnaud means “eagle + ruler”, associated with arô and waldaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Arnaud is used in French.

Arnaud comes through Proto-Germanic *arô.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arnold.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Arnaud is pronounced /aʁ.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 boys were recorded with the name Arnaud between 1981 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,337 in 1981.

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 Arnaud?

Arnaud had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arnaud 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arnaud. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arnauds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arnaud was born before 1991 — so the typical Arnaud is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
15
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Arnaud 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (5)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#6,337
1981

Spellings of Arnaud

Arnaud is not the most common spelling — Arnold is, with 80.2% against Arnaud'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.

Arnaud around the world

Where Arnaud 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
    1997–2017
    #4,812
    in 2017
  • France
    1900–2025
    #940
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #113
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arnaud 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
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Best rank ever
#6,337
1981
Peak year
1981
5 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
15
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arnaud

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

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Sibling names for Arnaud

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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