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Arvid

#8,319 in 2025Boys' name

Eagle + tree, wood, through Arvid

Arvid has been given to 3,167 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,319 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Arvid, 2025

1 in 368,000

Arvid over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arvid: meaning, origin, and history

Eagle + tree, wood, through Arvid

Old Norse

What Arvid means

Arvid belongs to the name family reached through Arvid → Arvid. Its meaning is “eagle + tree, wood”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid or Norwegian Arvid.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Arvid (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Arvid is used in English, Danish, Estonian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish. Its origins include Old Norse.

Arvid comes through Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid and Norwegian Arvid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arnviðr and Arvid.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Norwegian Nynorsk, Arvid is pronounced /²arvɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,167 boys were recorded with the name Arvid between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 1916; its best national rank was #547 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,999 in 2020 to #8,319 in 2025.

How common is Arvid?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,319
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arvid 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arvid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arvids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arvid was born before 1931 — so the typical Arvid is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
627
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (709).

Is Arvid 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
+734
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,320
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
9.0%
Peak was 1916 (100)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#547
1887

Spellings of Arvid

Arvid is not the most common spelling — David is, with 84.4% against Arvid's 0.07%.

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 Arvid is used

Across 1910–2025, Arvid was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 5,000 boys, against 1 in 51,167 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

020 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 5,000
  2. 2North Dakota1 in 6,667
  3. 3Wisconsin1 in 16,667
  4. 4Iowa1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7South Dakota1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 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. Arvid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arvid around the world

Where Arvid 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
    2007–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2005
    #5,062
    in 2005
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #347
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1954–1967
    #552
    in 1967

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Arvid

People whose public names include Arvid, 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.

Arvid in other languages

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

ArviArwid

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

Arvid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,319
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,320
Best rank ever
#547
1887
Peak year
1916
100 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,167
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Arvid

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

ArvinDovidArvilArvelNavidArvisArvieDuvidArvikArvindArvellArvilleArvoArvleJavidOvidArvalArvonJohndavidArvineArveyDvidDeividAvid

Names with a curve like Arvid

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

NewellCloydClovisElwynClaudieHaskellHermonVerlNorwoodNorvalVernieVester

Sibling names for Arvid

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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