Arsene
#8,977 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arsene has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #8,977 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Arsene, 2025
1 in 414,000
Arsene 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Arsene?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,977
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arsene sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arsene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arsenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arsene was born before 1949 — so the typical Arsene is around 76 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 48.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 34
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Arsene 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
- +1,731
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 80.0%
- Peak was 1920 (10)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.0% average annual change
Spellings of Arsene
Arsene is not the most common spelling — Rene is, with 58.1% against Arsene's 0.08%.
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.
Arsene around the world
Where Arsene 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 & Wales2014–2022#4,790in 2022
- France1900–2025#161in 2025
- Canada2005–2022#2,959in 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.
Arsene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arsene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arsene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.