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Arseniy

Boys' name

Form of Arsenios

Arseniy has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2012, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Arseniy, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arseniy: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Arsenios

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arseniy means

Arseniy is a form of Arsenios.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Arseniy is used in Russian and Ukrainian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ɐr.ˈsʲe.nʲɪj/ and /ɐr.ˈsɛ.nʲij/ for Arseniy.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Arseniy → Arsenios. The family’s meaning is “virile”, recorded in the naming reference for Arsenios.

Origin, language, and formation

Arseniy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arsenios and Арсе́ній.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 boys were recorded with the name Arseniy between 2008 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2012; its best national rank was #6,649 in 2012.

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 Arseniy?

Arseniy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arseniy 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arseniy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arseniys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arseniy was born before 2014 — so the typical Arseniy is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
72.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 72.1% of all recorded uses (75).

Is Arseniy 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 2012 (12)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,649
2012

Spellings of Arseniy

Arseniy is not the most common spelling — Arsenio is, with 55.7% against Arseniy's 2.6%.

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.

Arseniy around the world

Where Arseniy 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
    2010–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    2014–2014
    #6,170
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Arseniy by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#6,649
2012
Peak year
2012
12 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arseniy

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

ArshaanArsiahArshivArseneArshawnArshmanArsonArshadArsenyArsalArsalanArslanArshaunArshanArshaArshiaArshdeepArsamArsynArsiyahArsenioArsenArshithArsenios

Sibling names for Arseniy

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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