Arby
Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,059
- Peak · boys
- 1945 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 230since 1913
Arby over time
Rank among boys' names. Arby has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1978 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1960 | #3,077 | 8 |
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| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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| 1951 | #2,844 | 8 |
| 1950 | #3,021 | 7 |
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| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1945 | #2,131 | 11 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
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| 1939 | #2,449 | 9 |
| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1937 | #2,197 | 11 |
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| 1934 | #3,277 | 6 |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #2,849 | 8 |
| 1931 | #3,095 | 7 |
| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #3,959 | 5 |
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| 1927 | #3,780 | 6 |
| 1926 | #4,201 | 5 |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #2,473 | 12 |
| 1923 | #2,772 | 10 |
| 1922 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | #2,804 | 10 |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
| 1917 | #3,981 | 5 |
| 1916 | #2,152 | 13 |
| 1915 | #3,082 | 7 |
| 1914 | #3,264 | 5 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arby! It came in at #2,273, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1929, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Arby
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1978
- Debuted 1913
- Peaked 1945 at #2,131 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1946, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 68,468 boys born in 1916 were named Arby (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 273,640 boys born in 1978 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,131 in 1945, was only 1 in 122,350 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.1% of all boys named Arby (67) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 49 | #2,152 (1916) | #3,174 |
| 1920s | 67 | #2,473 (1924) | #3,474 |
| 1930s | 58 | #2,197 (1937) | #3,035 |
| 1940s | 22 | #2,131 (1945) | #2,969 |
| 1950s | 20 | #2,844 (1951) | #3,269 |
| 1960s | 8 | #3,077 (1960) | #3,077 |
| 1970s | 6 | #5,059 (1978) | #5,059 |
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.
Arby in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
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1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 94,395 of them was named Arby, which outranked 50.2% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,347Wray13
- #2,347Ysabel13
- #2,347Zachary13
- #2,473Arby12
- #2,473Acey12
- #2,473Afton12
- #2,473Arron12
- #2,641Abelino11
- #2,641Aldridge11
- #2,641Alfonza11
Tied with 167 names at #2,473; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.