Arnoldo

Where Arnoldo comes from

Arnoldo hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,915 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1946
    Arnoldo Alemán born
    President of Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002
  3. 1957
    Arnoldo Iguarán born
    Colombian footballer
  4. 1967
    Peak, #867
    68 babies named Arnoldo — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2009
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,551.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arnoldo Alemán · President of Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002, born 1946
  • Arnoldo Iguarán · Colombian footballer, born 1957
  • Arnoldo Foà · Italian actor, 1916–2014
  • Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo · Mexican politician, 1925–2013
  • Arnoldo de Winkelried Bertoni · Swiss born Paraguayan zoologist, 1878–1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.