Arda

Last seen for girls in 1964 at #6,009 · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 62.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2006 · 41 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
560
since 1996

Arda over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #1,279, 1889peak #2,784, 2006girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#3,12838
2024#5,06719
2023#6,22014
2022#5,01919
2021#7,08911
2020#7,50210
2019#4,95119
2018#5,10618
2017#4,93519
2016#4,77620
2015#3,43132
2014#3,53230
2013#4,18023
2012#4,25123
2011#3,79227
2010#3,18135
2009#3,63929
2008#3,82327
2007#4,24323
2006#2,78441
2005#4,63118
2004#6,13812
2003#7,2459
2002#5,13114
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2000#5,92011
1999#7,8747
1998#7,5607
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1996#9,0155
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1964#6,0096
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1949#3,6129
1948#4,6516
1947#4,3457
1946#3,6658
1945#3,6767
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1943#3,8017
1942#4,6225
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1940#3,2088
1939#3,4297
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1937#4,2555
1936#4,1815
1935#2,30513
1934#3,4497
1933#2,54011
1932#3,2748
1931#3,2268
1930#2,02317
1929#3,3948
1928#3,4368
1927#2,85911
1926#3,5648
1925#2,37815
1924#2,97311
1923#2,16917
1922#2,18617
1921#3,6668
1920#2,73112
1919#4,8145
1918#2,51913
1917#2,87910
1916#2,49812
1915#2,9009
1914#3,1886
1913#2,3318
1912#2,9795
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First appearance
1996

The first year at least five boys were named Arda! It came in at #9,015, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1996–1997, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arda
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 1,939 spots since 2024 (#5,067#3,128)
  • 4,374 spots since 2020 (#7,502#3,128)
  • 303 spots since 2015 (#3,431#3,128)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1996
  • Peaked 2006 at #2,784 (41 births)
  • Births halved by 2016, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 44,949
  • Highest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 were named Arda (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,784 in 2006, was only 1 in 50,129 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 43.9% of all boys named Arda (246) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1996
  • Mostly girls until 1995, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s19#7,560 (1998)#8,150
2000s184#2,784 (2006)#4,839
2010s246#3,181 (2010)#4,214
2020s111#3,128 (2025)#5,671

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.

Arda in 2006

boys
#2,784
41 births · 1 in 50,129 boys

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #2,784Arda41
More about 2006

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 50,129 of them was named Arda, which outranked 80.2% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arda
  1. #2,744Terran42
  2. #2,744Trevan42
  3. #2,744West42
  4. #2,784Arda41
  5. #2,784Anthoni41
  6. #2,784Avante41
  7. #2,784Caidan41
  8. #2,832Abhiram40
  9. #2,832Alexandros40
  10. #2,832Amadeus40

Tied with 47 names at #2,784; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

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

See the top 100 for 2006