Arrow
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
Given to boys 66.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,717since 1971
Arrow 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 | #3,975 | 36 | #1,976 | 77 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #2,704 | 64 | #1,518 | 116 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #2,309 | 79 | #1,424 | 128 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #1,215 | 155 |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | #1,188 | 161 |
| 2018 | #1,830 | 111 | #1,122 | 172 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #1,306 | 138 |
| 2016 | #2,502 | 72 | #1,421 | 122 |
| 2015 | #2,810 | 62 | #1,641 | 97 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | — | #7,698 | 10 | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arrow! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Arrow is popular in 1971
No state had 5 or more boys named Arrow in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Arrow
- 303 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,976)
- 761 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #1,976)
- 335 spots since 2015 (#1,641 → #1,976)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2018 at #1,122 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,559 boys born in 2018 were named Arrow (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,183 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Arrow (868) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,935 |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,475 |
| 1990s | 42 | #5,928 (1995) | #8,099 |
| 2000s | 79 | #5,554 (2009) | #8,339 |
| 2010s | 868 | #1,122 (2018) | #2,384 |
| 2020s | 700 | #1,215 (2020) | #1,544 |
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.
Arrow in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 353,689 of them was named Arrow, which outranked 13.2% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 748 names at #4,907; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.