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Arnold

Pronounced /ˈɑɹnəld/

Rank in 2024
#1,693
Born in 2024
99
Peak year
1924 · #95
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 99 boys were named Arnold, about 1 in every 17,326.
  • It peaked in 1924 with 2,014 babies, ranked #95.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 103,720 boys have been named Arnold since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Arnold per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 1.8
    Greatest
  2. 1.5
    Silent
  3. 0.7
    Boomers
  4. 0.3
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 29,588 babies, 1.77 per 1,000. Silent: 31,280 babies, 1.51 per 1,000. Boomers: 25,484 babies, 0.68 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,770 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,330 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,653 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,230 babies, 0.06 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From a French version of a Germanic name, from Proto-West Germanic *Arnuwald, from Proto-Germanic *arô (“eagle”) + *waldą (“power”). For the first part of the word doublet of erne, ornis, and ornitho-. Compare the Latin male given name and cognomen Aquila, and female given name Aquilīna (whence Russian Акули́на (Akulína)), related to aquila (whence eagle).

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages brought to England by Normans.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈɑɹnəld/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Arnold, CC BY-SA 4.0.