Arno

Where Arno comes from

Arno hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1888
    First appearance
    #815 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1897
    Peak, #725
    9 babies named Arno — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1898
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1900
    Arno Breker born
    German sculptor and architect
  5. 1933
    Arno Allan Penzias born
    German-born American physicist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Arno Allan Penzias · German-born American physicist, 1933–2024
  • Arno Breker · German sculptor and architect, 1900–1991
  • Arno Schmidt · German poet, 1914–1979
  • Arno Babajanian · Armenian composer and pianist, 1921–1983
  • Arno Holz · German naturalist poet and dramatist, 1863–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.