Arnulfo

Where Arnulfo comes from

Arnulfo 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. 1901
    Arnulfo Arias born
    President of Panama
  2. 1909
    First appearance
    #1,440 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1951
    Peak, #707
    96 babies named Arnulfo — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,185.
  5. 1974
    Arnulfo Valentierra born
    Colombian footballer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Arnulfo Arias · President of Panama, 1901–1988
  • Arnulfo Valentierra · Colombian footballer, born 1974
  • Arnulfo Fuentebella · Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2000 to 2001, 1945–2020
  • Arnulfo González · Mexican association football player, born 1991
  • Arnulfo Moreno Quiñonez · Colombian Roman Catholic bishop, born 1979

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.