Arpad
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arpad has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1919, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Arpad, 1964
1 in 648,000
Arpad over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arpad?
Arpad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 648,000
- 6 of 3,887,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 332,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 449,098 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arpad sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arpad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arpads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arpad was born before 1923 — so the typical Arpad is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 38.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Arpad 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1919 (6)
- Years since peak
- 106
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.7% average annual change
Spellings of Arpad
Arpad is not the most common spelling — Brad is, with 48.1% against Arpad's 0.03%.
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.
Arpad around the world
Where Arpad 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 & Wales2010–2024#5,120in 2024
- France2005–2012#5,969in 2012
- South Australia1952–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Arpad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arpad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arpad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.