Arjun

#490 for boys in 2025, 615 births

Peak · boys
2014 · 650 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
12,176
since 1967

Arjun over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arjun has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201967peak #455, 2014boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#490615
2024#580491
2023#602470
2022#578506
2021#588475
2020#560501
2019#499574
2018#487600
2017#514563
2016#516577
2015#504575
2014#455650
2013#502541
2012#491544
2011#524485
2010#641377
2009#731319
2008#759293
2007#730314
2006#724298
2005#712287
2004#744250
2003#772227
2002#962166
2001#981156
2000#1,128123
1999#1,006139
1998#1,032131
1997#1,21297
1996#1,141104
1995#1,23289
1994#1,26885
1993#1,35871
1992#1,42964
1991#1,42264
1990#1,39564
1989#1,64148
1988#1,70641
1987#2,21526
1986#2,29024
1985#2,17125
1984#2,70617
1983#2,27222
1982#3,10814
1981#2,89815
1980#3,25613
1979#3,56911
1978#3,40011
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1969#4,4045
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five boys were named Arjun! It came in at #3,231, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Arjun is popular in 1967

No state had 5 or more boys named Arjun in 1967, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Arjun
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 90 spots since 2024 (#580 → #490)
  • 70 spots since 2020 (#560 → #490)
  • 14 spots since 2015 (#504 → #490)
  • Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2003 (#962 → #772)
  • Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2020 (#499 → #560)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 2014 at #455 (650 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 25 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,777
  • Highest: 1 in 2,777 boys born in 2025 were named Arjun (0.04%)
  • Its best rank, #455 in 2014, was only 1 in 2,955 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 45.1% of all boys named Arjun (5,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s12#3,231 (1967)#3,818
1970s34#3,400 (1978)#4,034
1980s245#1,641 (1989)#2,426
1990s908#1,006 (1999)#1,250
2000s2,433#712 (2005)#824
2010s5,486#455 (2014)#513
2020s3,058#490 (2025)#566

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.

Arjun in 1967

boys
#3,231
7 births · 1 in 249,116 boys

Top boys' names in 1967

  1. #1Michael82,411
  2. #2David66,806
  3. #3James61,683
  4. #4John61,600
  5. #5Robert56,369
  6. #6William37,615
  7. #7Mark34,910
  8. #8Richard33,585
  9. #9Christopher29,413
  10. #10Brian28,646
  11. #3,231Arjun7
More about 1967

boys

1,743,811 boys got a published name in 1967; 1 in 249,116 of them was named Arjun, which outranked 29.0% of the 4,551 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 28.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arjun
  1. #2,985Zachariah8
  2. #2,985Zan8
  3. #2,985Zollie8
  4. #3,231Arjun7
  5. #3,231Abron7
  6. #3,231Adolpho7
  7. #3,231Ajay7
  8. #3,559Abran6
  9. #3,559Adams6
  10. #3,559Adriano6

Tied with 327 names at #3,231; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1966
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,048Alfie#1,963 → #915
  2. ↑ 548Waylon#1,540 → #992
  3. ↑ 519Ariel#1,450 → #931
  4. ↑ 430Brendon#1,345 → #915
  5. ↑ 416Terrill#1,259 → #843
Fallers
  1. ↓ 443German#968 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 396Darry#916 → #1,312
  3. ↓ 346Regan#835 → #1,181
  4. ↓ 337Caleb#916 → #1,253
  5. ↓ 317Winfred#785 → #1,102

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1967 →