Arrow
#3,975 for girls in 2025, 36 births · #1,976 for boys in 2025, 77 births
Given to boys 66.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 172 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,717since 1971
Arrow over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,975 | 36 | #1,976 | 77 |
| 2024 | #3,335 | 47 | #1,673 | 100 |
| 2023 | #2,704 | 64 | #1,518 | 116 |
| 2022 | #3,073 | 53 | #1,457 | 124 |
| 2021 | #2,309 | 79 | #1,424 | 128 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 | #1,215 | 155 |
| 2019 | #2,231 | 82 | #1,188 | 161 |
| 2018 | #1,830 | 111 | #1,122 | 172 |
| 2017 | #2,401 | 75 | #1,306 | 138 |
| 2016 | #2,502 | 72 | #1,421 | 122 |
| 2015 | #2,810 | 62 | #1,641 | 97 |
| 2014 | #4,768 | 29 | #2,230 | 60 |
| 2013 | #7,031 | 17 | #2,955 | 38 |
| 2012 | #6,341 | 20 | #3,231 | 34 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #5,554 | 16 |
| 2008 | — | #7,698 | 10 | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,096 | 10 | |
| 2004 | — | #8,927 | 7 | |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | — | #9,392 | 6 | |
| 2001 | — | #10,556 | 5 | |
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| 1999 | — | #8,704 | 6 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1992 | — | #8,435 | 5 | |
| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
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| 1988 | — | #6,426 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Arrow! It came in at #4,907, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Arrow
- 303 spots since 2024 (#1,673 → #1,976)
- 761 spots since 2020 (#1,215 → #1,976)
- 335 spots since 2015 (#1,641 → #1,976)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 2018 at #1,122 (172 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,559 boys born in 2018 were named Arrow (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,183 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 50.6% of all boys named Arrow (868) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,935 |
| 1980s | 11 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,475 |
| 1990s | 42 | #5,928 (1995) | #8,099 |
| 2000s | 79 | #5,554 (2009) | #8,339 |
| 2010s | 868 | #1,122 (2018) | #2,384 |
| 2020s | 700 | #1,215 (2020) | #1,544 |
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.
Arrow in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 25,072 of them was named Arrow, which outranked 84.6% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,674Xavia65
- #2,674Zalaya65
- #2,674Zaliyah65
- #2,704Arrow64
- #2,704Aaradhya64
- #2,704Aerith64
- #2,704Anayra64
- #2,730Adlee63
- #2,730Alayla63
- #2,730Alea63
Tied with 25 names at #2,704; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,746 of them was named Arrow, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,508Roan117
- #1,508Rylee117
- #1,508Westen117
- #1,518Arrow116
- #1,518Edson116
- #1,518Jamarion116
- #1,518Jetson116
- #1,530Cadence115
- #1,530Craig115
- #1,530Koe115
Tied with 11 names at #1,518; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.