Arzo
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arzo has been given to 44 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1923, with 8 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Arzo, 1958
1 in 827,000
Arzo 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Arzo over time
In 2022, Arzo went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Arzo?
Arzo had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1958
- 1 in 827,000
- 5 of 4,133,550 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 424,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1958
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 573,033 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arzo sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arzo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arzos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arzo was born before 1932 — so the typical Arzo is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 46.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 38.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 10
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 46.2% of all recorded uses (18).
Is Arzo 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1923 (8)
- Years since peak
- 102
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Arzo
Arzo is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 32.5% against Arzo's <0.01%.
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.
Arzo around the world
Where Arzo 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 & Wales2008–2012#4,838in 2012
- France2022–2022#7,360in 2022
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.
Arzo by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Arzo
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arzo
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.