Arjun

#490 for boys in 2025, 615 births

Peak · boys
2014 · 650 births
Debut · boys
7 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
12,176
since 1967

Arjun over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arjun has never cracked the top 400 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202000peak #455, 2014boys
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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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rankbirths
2025#490615
2024#580491
2023#602470
2022#578506
2021#588475
2020#560501
2019#499574
2018#487600
2017#514563
2016#516577
2015#504575
2014#455650
2013#502541
2012#491544
2011#524485
2010#641377
2009#731319
2008#759293
2007#730314
2006#724298
2005#712287
2004#744250
2003#772227
2002#962166
2001#981156
2000#1,128123
1999#1,006139
1998#1,032131
1997#1,21297
1996#1,141104
1995#1,23289
1994#1,26885
1993#1,35871
1992#1,42964
1991#1,42264
1990#1,39564
1989#1,64148
1988#1,70641
1987#2,21526
1986#2,29024
1985#2,17125
1984#2,70617
1983#2,27222
1982#3,10814
1981#2,89815
1980#3,25613
1979#3,56911
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First appearance
1967

The first year at least five boys were named Arjun! It came in at #3,231, and was given to 7 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arjun
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 90 spots since 2024 (#580#490)
  • 70 spots since 2020 (#560#490)
  • 14 spots since 2015 (#504#490)
  • Biggest jump: 190 spots in 2003 (#962#772)
  • Biggest drop: 61 spots in 2020 (#499#560)
Rise & fade · boys
47 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1967
  • Peaked 2014 at #455 (650 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 25 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 25 yrs · run 2001–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 2,777
  • Highest: 1 in 2,777 boys born in 2025 were named Arjun (0.04%)
  • Its best rank, #455 in 2014, was only 1 in 2,955 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 45.1% of all boys named Arjun (5,486) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s12#3,231 (1967)#3,818
1970s34#3,400 (1978)#4,034
1980s245#1,641 (1989)#2,426
1990s908#1,006 (1999)#1,250
2000s2,433#712 (2005)#824
2010s5,486#455 (2014)#513
2020s3,058#490 (2025)#566

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.

Arjun in 2000

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#1,128
123 births · 1 in 15,967 boys

Top boys' names in 2000

  1. #1Jacob34,492
  2. #2Michael32,045
  3. #3Matthew28,580
  4. #4Joshua27,543
  5. #5Christopher24,936
  6. #6Nicholas24,653
  7. #7Andrew23,658
  8. #8Joseph22,844
  9. #9Daniel22,338
  10. #10Tyler21,506
  11. #1,128Arjun123
More about 2000

boys

1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 15,967 of them was named Arjun, which outranked 90.7% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arjun
  1. #1,125Johnpaul124
  2. #1,125Miguelangel124
  3. #1,125Santana124
  4. #1,128Arjun123
  5. #1,128Arman123
  6. #1,128Bradford123
  7. #1,128Dakotah123
  8. #1,137Demond122
  9. #1,137Edmund122
  10. #1,137Jarret122

Tied with 8 names at #1,128; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1999
Risers
  1. 4,806Maximus#5,656#850
  2. 2,950Elian#3,376#426
  3. 438Axel#799#361
  4. 437Luca#1,063#626
  5. 403Jevon#1,039#636
Fallers
  1. 1,334Trajan#996#2,330
  2. 498Jordi#743#1,241
  3. 322Auston#931#1,253
  4. 298Tyreke#737#1,035
  5. 274Tahj#863#1,137

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

See the top 100 for 2000