Arif
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1976 · 15 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 714since 1968
Arif over time
Rank among boys' names. Arif has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #5,904 | 15 |
| 2023 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | #6,406 | 13 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #7,605 | 10 |
| 2015 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #6,307 | 13 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #5,767 | 15 |
| 2007 | #4,493 | 21 |
| 2006 | #5,303 | 16 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #4,019 | 17 |
| 1997 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #4,020 | 15 |
| 1992 | #5,660 | 9 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #3,779 | 15 |
| 1989 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #3,005 | 16 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #3,701 | 11 |
| 1983 | #2,787 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #2,929 | 14 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #2,709 | 15 |
| 1975 | #4,309 | 7 |
| 1974 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
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| 1969 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #3,107 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arif! It came in at #3,107, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Arif is popular in 1968
No state had 5 or more boys named Arif in 1968, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Arif
- 1,775 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #7,679)
- 388 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #7,679)
- 1,003 spots since 2015 (#6,676 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1976 at #2,709 (15 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 98,829 boys born in 2007 were named Arif (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,709 in 1976, was only 1 in 104,600 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.3% of all boys named Arif (159) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 15 | #3,107 (1968) | #3,351 |
| 1970s | 72 | #2,709 (1976) | #3,594 |
| 1980s | 137 | #2,787 (1983) | #3,371 |
| 1990s | 149 | #3,325 (1991) | #4,203 |
| 2000s | 159 | #4,476 (2001) | #5,177 |
| 2010s | 112 | #5,482 (2012) | #7,294 |
| 2020s | 70 | #5,904 (2024) | #7,086 |
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.
Arif in 1968
Top boys' names in 1968
More about 1968
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1,737,974 boys got a published name in 1968; 1 in 217,247 of them was named Arif, which outranked 34.5% of the 4,746 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,907Woodson9
- #2,907Worth9
- #2,907Wright9
- #3,107Arif8
- #3,107Abdel8
- #3,107Agostino8
- #3,107Aldric8
- #3,365Aarron7
- #3,365Aharon7
- #3,365Akbar7
Tied with 257 names at #3,107; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.