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Arsal

#9,791 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Arsal has been given to 148 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #9,791 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Arsal, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arsal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arsal means

Arsal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arsal is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 148 boys were recorded with the name Arsal between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2013; its best national rank was #5,675 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,805 in 2020 to #9,791 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,770 in 2015 to #9,791 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 Arsal?

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
#9,791
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arsal 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 Arsal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arsals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arsal was born before 2013 — so the typical Arsal is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
49.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
148
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 49.3% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Arsal 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−986
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+979
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.17×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2013 (15)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,675
2013

Spellings of Arsal

Arsal is not the most common spelling — Ariel is, with 17.5% against Arsal's 0.12%.

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.

Arsal around the world

Where Arsal 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
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2016–2016
    #6,080
    in 2016
  • Canada
    2005–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

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.

Arsal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,791
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 986
Best rank ever
#5,675
2013
Peak year
2013
15 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
148
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Arsal

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

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Sibling names for Arsal

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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