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Arno

#3,955 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Arnoud

Arno has been given to 1,723 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #3,955 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Arno, 2025

1 in 123,000

Arno over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arno: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Arnoud

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arno means

Arno is a short form of Arnoud.

Origin, language, and formation

Arno is used in Estonian, Finnish, German and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arnoud, Arnold, Aarno and Arne.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Arno is pronounced /ˈɑrno/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,723 boys were recorded with the name Arno between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1915; its best national rank was #728 in 1897.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,248 in 2020 to #3,955 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,081 in 2015 to #3,955 in 2025.

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 Arno?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 63,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,955
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arno 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 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arno. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arnos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arno was born before 1940 — so the typical Arno is around 85 today.

Median birth year
1940
About 85 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
18.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
717
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Choose a decade

1910s — 18.7% of all recorded uses (323).

Is Arno 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
+1,301
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,293
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,126
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.1%
Peak was 1915 (55)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#728
1897

Spellings of Arno

Arno is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 24.7% against Arno's 0.28%.

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 Arno is used

Across 1910–2025, Arno was most concentrated in Wisconsin — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 210,956 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Wisconsin1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4Minnesota1 in —
  5. 5Missouri1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 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. Arno has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arno around the world

Where Arno 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
    2001–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    1909–2025
    #2,994
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Arno by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,955
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,293
Best rank ever
#728
1897
Peak year
1915
55 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,723
Count in 2025
27

Names similar to Arno

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

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Sibling names for Arno

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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