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Arsenio

#5,631 in 2025Boys' name

Masculine, virile

Arsenio has been given to 2,207 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #5,631 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 397 recorded.

Babies named Arsenio, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arsenio: meaning, origin, and history

Masculine, virile

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arsenio means

Arsenio means “masculine, virile”, associated with ársēn.

Origin, language, and formation

Arsenio is used in Italian and Tagalog.

Arsenio comes through Ancient Greek Ἀρσένιος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Arsenio is pronounced /ʔaɾˈsenjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,207 boys were recorded with the name Arsenio between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 397 in 1989; its best national rank was #479 in 1989.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,249 in 2020 to #5,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,073 in 2015 to #5,631 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 Arsenio?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,631
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arsenio 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arsenio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arsenios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arsenio was born before 1989 — so the typical Arsenio is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,921
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (781).

Is Arsenio 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
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−382
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−558
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.0%
Peak was 1989 (397)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#479
1989

Arsenio’s breakout year

Among the small set of names that had a single, unmistakable year — a surge well above the years on either side of it.

In 1989, 397 boys were named Arsenio — about #479 that year — roughly 4.7× as many as in the surrounding years. What the data can’t say is why; the story behind the year is one you’ll likely recognise. Other one-hit wonders

Spellings of Arsenio

Arsenio is not the most common spelling — Artemio is, with 38.8% against Arsenio's 35.0%.

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 Arsenio is used

Across 1910–2025, Arsenio was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 9,091 boys, against 1 in 144,273 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 9,091
  2. 2Georgia1 in 50,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4Alabama1 in 100,000
  5. 5Arizona1 in 100,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 100,000

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. Arsenio has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arsenio around the world

Where Arsenio 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.

  • France
    1965–1972
    #2,118
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Arsenio

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

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.

Arsenio in other languages

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

ArsenArzénArseniArsèneArseniusArseniusz

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

Arsenio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 382
Best rank ever
#479
1989
Peak year
1989
397 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,207
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Arsenio

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

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Names with a curve like Arsenio

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

MychalJustineMartellTaureanKielJaradJessicaTyrelSarahAmandaJarrellCassidy

Sibling names for Arsenio

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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