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Arzu

#12,060 in 2025Girls' name

From fa-cls آرزو; literal meaning unconfirmed

Arzu has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #12,060 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Arzu, 2025

1 in 474,000

Arzu over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arzu: meaning, origin, and history

From fa-cls آرزو; literal meaning unconfirmed

Persian

What Arzu means

Arzu is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arzu is used in Turkish. Its origins include Persian.

Arzu comes through fa-cls آرزو.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Arzu between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2022; its best national rank was #7,315 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,636 in 2020 to #12,060 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,544 in 2015 to #12,060 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 Arzu?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,060
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arzu 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arzu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arzus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arzu was born before 2015 — so the typical Arzu is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
170
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Arzu 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
−3,558
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,576
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,516
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2022 (15)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,315
2022

Spellings of Arzu

Arzu is not the most common spelling — Aria is, with 56.4% against Arzu's 0.10%.

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 Arzu is used

Across 1910–2025, Arzu was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

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

Arzu around the world

Where Arzu 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
    1999–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1973–2019
    #6,606
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2000–2000
    #727
    in 2000

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

Arzu by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,060
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,576
Best rank ever
#7,315
2022
Peak year
2022
15 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
170
Count in 2025
7

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Sibling names for Arzu

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