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Arne

#9,790 in 2025Boys' name

Eagle

Arne has been given to 2,854 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #9,790 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Arne, 2025

1 in 474,000

Arne over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arne: meaning, origin, and history

Eagle

Germanic languages and Old Norse

What Arne means

Arne means “eagle”, associated with arn-.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

For the given name, a short form of Old Norse compound names beginning with arn- (“eagle”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Arne (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Arne is used in English, Danish, German, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Germanic languages and Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arno, Arna, ǫrn and Árni.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Arne is pronounced /arnə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,854 boys were recorded with the name Arne between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 1916; its best national rank was #724 in 1916.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,640 in 2020 to #9,790 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,225 in 2015 to #9,790 in 2025.

How common is Arne?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,790
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arne 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arnes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arne was born before 1947 — so the typical Arne is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
17.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 17.4% of all recorded uses (496).

Is Arne 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
+1,271
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−150
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,435
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.1%
Peak was 1916 (69)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#724
1916

Spellings of Arne

Arne is not the most common spelling — Wayne is, with 31.8% against Arne's 0.26%.

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 Arne is used

Across 1910–2025, Arne was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 61,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 12,500
  2. 2Washington1 in 16,667
  3. 3North Dakota1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

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

Arne around the world

Where Arne 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
    1997–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #221
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1944–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Arne

People whose public names include Arne, 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.

Arne in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Arne. Linked forms have their own page here.

ArnArniArnoArnyAarneArnesArnieArnolArnaudArnoldArnaldoErneErnéÅdneArnasArnoudArnoutArnauldArnoldus

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Arne by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 150
Best rank ever
#724
1916
Peak year
1916
69 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,854
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Arne

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

ArnoArnavArnieArnezLorneArnaldoArnoldoArnulfoArnelArnettArnellArnolVerneOsborneThorneArnoldArnikArnetLuverneArneyLeverneArnLaverneArnit

Names with a curve like Arne

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

WaymanWymanLlewellynJonnieCurleyStaffordRaoulRexfordGodfreyEzellWeltonLoran

Sibling names for Arne

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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