Arda
Last seen for girls in 1964 at #6,009 · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 62.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2006 · 41 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 560since 1996
Arda over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,128 | 38 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,067 | 19 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #7,502 | 10 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,951 | 19 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,935 | 19 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,776 | 20 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,431 | 32 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,532 | 30 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,251 | 23 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,792 | 27 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,181 | 35 | |
| 2009 | — | #3,639 | 29 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,823 | 27 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,784 | 41 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,631 | 18 | |
| 2004 | — | #6,138 | 12 | |
| 2003 | — | #7,245 | 9 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,131 | 14 | |
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| 2000 | — | #5,920 | 11 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #7,560 | 7 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 | — | |
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| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
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| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
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| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | — | |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,305 | 13 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,540 | 11 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,023 | 17 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,394 | 8 | — | |
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | — | |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,169 | 17 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,186 | 17 | — | |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,731 | 12 | — | |
| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,879 | 10 | — | |
| 1916 | #2,498 | 12 | — | |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 | — | |
| 1914 | #3,188 | 6 | — | |
| 1913 | #2,331 | 8 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,979 | 5 | — | |
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| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arda! It came in at #9,015, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Arda is popular in 2010
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,470 · 1 in 15,176
- California#2,243 · 1 in 38,962
- Texas#2,245 · 1 in 35,723
Best ever in a state: #649 in New Jersey, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,470 | 7 | 1 in 15,176 |
| California | #2,243 | 6 | 1 in 38,962 |
| Texas | #2,245 | 5 | 1 in 35,723 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Arda
- 1,939 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #3,128)
- 4,374 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #3,128)
- 303 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #3,128)
- Debuted 1996
- Peaked 2006 at #2,784 (41 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 were named Arda (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,784 in 2006, was only 1 in 50,129 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 43.9% of all boys named Arda (246) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 19 | #7,560 (1998) | #8,150 |
| 2000s | 184 | #2,784 (2006) | #4,839 |
| 2010s | 246 | #3,181 (2010) | #4,214 |
| 2020s | 111 | #3,128 (2025) | #5,671 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Arda in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 54,819 of them was named Arda, which outranked 77.7% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,128Watson36
- #3,128Williams36
- #3,128Willian36
- #3,181Arda35
- #3,181Amaan35
- #3,181Axle35
- #3,181Balian35
- #3,239Abbott34
- #3,239Adon34
- #3,239Ahron34
Tied with 57 names at #3,181; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.