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Arsen

#3,247 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Russian origin

Arsen has been given to 642 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #3,247 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Arsen, 2025

1 in 92,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arsen: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Russian origin

Russian

What Arsen means

Arsen is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arsen is used in English, Albanian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Russian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 642 boys were recorded with the name Arsen between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,846 in 1913.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,320 in 2020 to #3,247 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,155 in 2015 to #3,247 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 Arsen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 92,100
36 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 47,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,247
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
63,832 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arsen 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 63,832 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arsen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arsens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arsen was born before 2015 — so the typical Arsen is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
624
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2010s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (261).

Is Arsen 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
−139
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,073
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−92
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
92.3%
Peak was 2024 (39)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,846
1913

Spellings of Arsen

Arsen is not the most common spelling — Allen is, with 18.1% against Arsen's 0.04%.

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 Arsen is used

Across 1910–2025, Arsen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 212,771 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Arsen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arsen around the world

Where Arsen 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
    2008–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    1928–2025
    #1,626
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

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.

Arsen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,247
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,073
Best rank ever
#2,846
1913
Peak year
2024
39 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
642
Count in 2025
36

Names similar to Arsen

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

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Sibling names for Arsen

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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