Arnulfo

#3,761 in 2025Boys' name

Eagle

Arnulfo has been given to 6,316 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #3,761 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1992, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Arnulfo, 2025

1 in 114,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arnulfo: meaning, origin, and history

Eagle

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arnulfo means

Arnulfo means “eagle”, associated with arn.

Origin, language, and formation

Arnulfo is used in Spanish.

Arnulfo comes through German Arnulf, German arn and German ulf.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arnulf.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Arnulfo is pronounced /aɾˈnulfo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,316 boys were recorded with the name Arnulfo between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1992; its best national rank was #706 in 1951.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,869 in 2020 to #3,761 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,516 in 2015 to #3,761 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 Arnulfo?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 114,000; 29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 58,900; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #3,761; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 79,239 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Arnulfo 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arnulfo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arnulfos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arnulfo was born before 1979 — so the typical Arnulfo is around 46 today.

Median birth year: 1979; About 46 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 15.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 18.4%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 5,166; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 15.7% of all recorded uses (989).

Is Arnulfo 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: +1,693; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,108; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: −245; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.94×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 24.4%; Peak was 1992 (119)
Years since peak: 33; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #706; 1951

Spellings of Arnulfo

Arnulfo is the most-used spelling, taking 48.2% of the 13,112 babies given a near-identical spelling.

Arnulfo48.2%6,316
Arnoldo35.9%4,713
Arnaldo15.9%2,083

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 Arnulfo is used

Across 1910–2025, Arnulfo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,167 boys, against 1 in 11,907 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

024 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 in 4,167
2California1 in 11,111
3Arizona1 in 20,000
4Colorado1 in 100,000
5Illinois1 in 100,000
6Florida1 in —
7Georgia1 in —
8Oregon1 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. Arnulfo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Arnulfo

People whose public names include Arnulfo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Arnulfo AriasPhysician
1901–1988
Arnulfo ValentierraAssociation football player
b. 1974
Arnulfo FuentebellaPolitician
1945–2020
Arnulfo GonzálezAssociation football player
b. 1991
Pedro Arnulfo Sanchez SuarezMilitary officer
b. 1972
Arnulfo PozoSport cyclist
b. 1945
Arnulfo Mejía RojasLawyer
1956–2016

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.

Arnulfo in other languages

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

ArnolfoArnulfArnould

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

Arnulfo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #3,761
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,108
Best rank ever: #706; 1951
Peak year: 1992; 119 that year
First recorded: 1909
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 6,316
Count in 2025: 29

Names similar to Arnulfo

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

Arnoldo Arnaldo Arnav Arnie Rodolfo Adolfo Arne Rudolfo Arno Arnold Arnett Arnell Arnez Arnolfo Arnel Arnol Ranulfo Arnette Arnik Arnet Arnaaz Arney Arnesh Adelfo

Names with a curve like Arnulfo

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

Rosendo Erasmo Delvin Leopoldo Fermin Reymundo Eloy Federico Derrell Reyes Edmundo Alfonzo

Sibling names for Arnulfo

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

Kelsea Kaylene Kelsi Ileana Corina Leandra Ivonne Griselda

For a brother

Dillan Dejuan Rosendo Demario Edgardo Darrius Denton Tyron

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