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 | ||
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| 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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#548 · 1 in 3,022
- Indiana#667 · 1 in 4,519
- Missouri#732 · 1 in 5,266
- Washington#755 · 1 in 5,254
- California#1,446 · 1 in 18,858
Best ever in a state: #430 in Utah, 2018.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #548 | 6 | 1 in 3,022 |
| Indiana | #667 | 8 | 1 in 4,519 |
| Missouri | #732 | 6 | 1 in 5,266 |
| Washington | #755 | 7 | 1 in 5,254 |
| California | #1,446 | 12 | 1 in 18,858 |
| Texas | #1,907 | 7 | 1 in 26,869 |
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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 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 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 28,792 of them was named Arrow, which outranked 85.3% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,773Therese63
- #2,773Wyatt63
- #2,773Zofia63
- #2,810Arrow62
- #2,810Adison62
- #2,810Ahuva62
- #2,810Aliyanna62
- #2,846Adaly61
- #2,846Alaska61
- #2,846Alaura61
Tied with 35 names at #2,810; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 19,760 of them was named Arrow, which outranked 88.3% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,625Ryden98
- #1,625Zachery98
- #1,625Zamari98
- #1,641Arrow97
- #1,641Bryden97
- #1,641Dontae97
- #1,641Gentry97
- #1,646Aurelio96
- #1,646Cam96
- #1,646Ezrah96
Tied with 4 names at #1,641; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.