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Arwen

#1,384 in 2025Girls' name

Noble maiden

Arwen has been given to 3,299 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #1,384 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Arwen, 2025

1 in 21,000

Arwen over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arwen: meaning, origin, and history

Noble maiden

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Arwen means

Arwen means “noble maiden”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arwen is used in Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arwyn.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Arwen is pronounced /ˈarwɛn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,299 girls were recorded with the name Arwen between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 179 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,278 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,729 in 2020 to #1,384 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,797 in 2015 to #1,384 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 Arwen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,000
158 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 10,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,384
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,545 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arwen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,545 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arwen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arwens were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,299
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (1,062).

Is Arwen 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
−49
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+345
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+413
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.3%
Peak was 2023 (179)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,278
2023

Spellings of Arwen

Arwen is not the most common spelling — Karen is, with 63.7% against Arwen's 0.21%.

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 Arwen is used

Across 2016–2025, Arwen was most concentrated in Colorado — about 1 in 5,882 girls, against 1 in 13,288 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

217 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Colorado1 in 5,882
  2. 2Indiana1 in 8,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 8,333
  4. 4Minnesota1 in 10,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 10,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 10,000
  7. 7California1 in 11,111
  8. 8Arizona1 in 12,500

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Arwen around the world

Where Arwen 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
    1998–2025
    #551
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1976–2025
    #324
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2003–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2004–2024
    #556
    in 2024
  • France
    2002–2025
    #680
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2024
    #934
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1975–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Arwen in other languages

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

ÁrvenAlwena

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

Arwen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,384
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 345
Best rank ever
#1,278
2023
Peak year
2023
179 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,299
Count in 2025
158

Names similar to Arwen

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

RowenArwynArwaElowenLowenBowenOwenBronwenAnwenGwenArwaaArwildaArwynnEllowenOlwenWenArwillaBranwenBlodwenCeridwenCerridwen

Names with a curve like Arwen

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

RoriNailaRaineAmeeraBailaHalimaAmeerahRainNaylaZiaGiuliaGitty

Sibling names for Arwen

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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