Arbie

Last seen for girls in 1955 at #5,828 · Last seen for boys in 1974 at #5,227
Given to boys 78.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
1904 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
513
since 1904

Arbie over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201917peak #1,006, 1890peak #874, 1904girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1974#5,2275
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1968#3,6736
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1964#3,2827
1963
1962#3,6406
1961#4,0655
1960#3,6656
1959#3,9885
1958#3,0338
1957
1956#2,9698
1955#5,8285#3,2017
1954#2,20713
1953#2,9058
1952
1951#5,4145#2,49510
1950#2,7708
1949#3,2986
1948
1947#2,8628
1946#2,27111
1945#2,7437
1944#3,4305
1943#2,7328
1942#3,5605
1941#3,1336
1940#2,08112
1939#2,4499
1938#2,08412
1937#3,1468#2,19711
1936#2,4529
1935#3,1568#2,5299
1934#4,2865#2,39310
1933#1,90514
1932#4,4115#2,31311
1931#3,7635
1930#2,17813
1929#2,09614
1928#4,7255#2,65910
1927#2,52311
1926#2,9049
1925#4,4266#2,43512
1924#2,64111
1923#3,3509#1,64422
1922#4,4456#1,76520
1921#4,4646#2,37613
1920#3,09710#1,82019
1919#4,8145#2,66510
1918#3,2449#2,26013
1917#3,7137#2,56210
1916#2,04314
1915#2,52611#2,31011
1914#1,86812
1913#2,5407#2,2737
1912#1,7469
1911
1910
1909#1,7637#1,4405
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1904#8748
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1900
1899#1,5965
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1890#1,0068
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First appearance
1904

The first year at least five boys were named Arbie! It came in at #874, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1905–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arbie
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1974
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1904
  • Peaked 1904 at #874 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1905, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1904
Share of babies · boys
1 in 16,015
  • Highest: 1 in 16,015 boys born in 1904 were named Arbie (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 314,467 boys born in 1974 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 27.5% of all boys named Arbie (141) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1916
  • Mostly girls until 1915, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s13#874 (1904)#1,157
1910s86#1,746 (1912)#2,216
1920s141#1,644 (1923)#2,286
1930s103#1,905 (1933)#2,426
1940s68#2,081 (1940)#2,901
1950s67#2,207 (1954)#2,946
1960s30#3,282 (1964)#3,665
1970s5#5,227 (1974)#5,227

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.

Arbie in 1917

girls
#3,713
7 births · 1 in 154,467 girls
boys
#2,562
10 births · 1 in 92,548 boys

Top girls' names in 1917

  1. #1Mary64,280
  2. #2Helen34,251
  3. #3Dorothy28,852
  4. #4Margaret25,560
  5. #5Ruth23,568
  6. #6Mildred16,256
  7. #7Anna15,160
  8. #8Elizabeth15,131
  9. #9Frances14,363
  10. #10Virginia14,261
  11. #3,713Arbie7

Top boys' names in 1917

  1. #1John51,852
  2. #2William42,422
  3. #3James37,337
  4. #4Robert35,220
  5. #5Joseph24,761
  6. #6George24,196
  7. #7Charles24,143
  8. #8Edward17,501
  9. #9Frank15,768
  10. #10Thomas12,611
  11. #2,562Arbie10
More about 1917

girls

1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 154,467 of them was named Arbie, which outranked 30.1% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arbie
  1. #3,344Winnona8
  2. #3,344Wretha8
  3. #3,344Zelta8
  4. #3,713Arbie7
  5. #3,713Addine7
  6. #3,713Adene7
  7. #3,713Adina7
  8. #4,083Addis6
  9. #4,083Adelaine6
  10. #4,083Adena6

Tied with 369 names at #3,713; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 549Georgene#1,445#896
  2. 380Ottie#1,332#952
  3. 365Louis#1,298#933
  4. 334Valentine#1,298#964
  5. 322Harold#1,210#888
Fallers
  1. 401Ceola#840#1,241
  2. 373Floretta#964#1,337
  3. 344Buelah#993#1,337
  4. 326Glennie#915#1,241
  5. 290Maye#915#1,205

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

boys

925,482 boys got a published name in 1917; 1 in 92,548 of them was named Arbie, which outranked 44.3% of the 4,602 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arbie
  1. #2,423Windsor11
  2. #2,423Yates11
  3. #2,423Zoltan11
  4. #2,562Arbie10
  5. #2,562Adger10
  6. #2,562Algernon10
  7. #2,562Aurelius10
  8. #2,732Adair9
  9. #2,732Alba9
  10. #2,732Aldred9

Tied with 169 names at #2,562; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1916
Risers
  1. 520Nicolas#1,304#784
  2. 469Hezekiah#1,415#946
  3. 433Hilliard#1,415#982
  4. 404Rayford#1,304#900
  5. 338Minoru#1,335#997
Fallers
  1. 1,738Tatsuo#824#2,562
  2. 709Berlin#984#1,693
  3. 556Prentice#972#1,528
  4. 473Manning#964#1,437
  5. 457Lovell#939#1,396

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

See the top 100 for 1917