Arun

#6,803 for boys in 2025, 12 births

Peak · boys
1979 · 29 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,440
since 1966

Arun over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Arun has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201990peak #1,867, 1979boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#6,80312
2024#5,90415
2023#7,28911
2022#5,44517
2021#7,08911
2020#4,27523
2019#4,63921
2018#4,73920
2017#4,10525
2016#4,62421
2015#5,05818
2014#3,89126
2013#3,58229
2012#4,53321
2011#3,51030
2010#4,51721
2009#3,91926
2008#3,34433
2007#2,72144
2006#2,97937
2005#3,24131
2004#3,07432
2003#2,99332
2002#2,37243
2001#2,93131
2000#2,73633
1999#2,46236
1998#2,09444
1997#2,34735
1996#3,02124
1995#1,91444
1994#2,84725
1993#2,25734
1992#2,67026
1991#2,14334
1990#2,08635
1989#2,29229
1988#2,59922
1987#2,33324
1986#2,09627
1985#2,22624
1984#1,88529
1983#2,40820
1982#2,59618
1981#2,33821
1980#2,36721
1979#1,86729
1978#2,01224
1977#2,45818
1976#2,11322
1975#3,6599
1974#2,54915
1973#2,12419
1972#2,24317
1971#2,46415
1970#3,2829
1969#3,0629
1968#3,6736
1967#3,9665
1966#2,9868
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First appearance
1966

The first year at least five boys were named Arun! It came in at #2,986, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

See more about Arun
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 899 spots since 2024 (#5,904#6,803)
  • 2,528 spots since 2020 (#4,275#6,803)
  • 1,745 spots since 2015 (#5,058#6,803)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1966
  • Peaked 1979 at #1,867 (29 births)
  • Births halved by 2021, 42 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 43,266
  • Highest: 1 in 43,266 boys born in 1995 were named Arun (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 142,340 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,867 in 1979, was only 1 in 59,363 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 23.8% of all boys named Arun (342) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s28#2,986 (1966)#3,422
1970s177#1,867 (1979)#2,477
1980s235#1,885 (1984)#2,314
1990s337#1,914 (1995)#2,384
2000s342#2,372 (2002)#3,031
2010s232#3,510 (2011)#4,320
2020s89#4,275 (2020)#6,134

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.

Arun in 1990

boys
#2,086
35 births · 1 in 58,687 boys

Top boys' names in 1990

  1. #1Michael65,321
  2. #2Christopher52,362
  3. #3Matthew44,826
  4. #4Joshua43,237
  5. #5Daniel33,830
  6. #6David33,748
  7. #7Andrew33,673
  8. #8James32,359
  9. #9Justin30,649
  10. #10Joseph30,137
  11. #2,086Arun35
More about 1990

boys

2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 58,687 of them was named Arun, which outranked 78.0% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Arun
  1. #2,049Zach36
  2. #2,049Zachry36
  3. #2,049Zak36
  4. #2,086Arun35
  5. #2,086Antjuan35
  6. #2,086Antonia35
  7. #2,086Antwoine35
  8. #2,128Arick34
  9. #2,128Benigno34
  10. #2,128Brogan34

Tied with 41 names at #2,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1989
Risers
  1. 3,636Tevin#4,017#381
  2. 3,283Keenen#4,271#988
  3. 1,325Male#2,027#702
  4. 1,032Denzel#1,476#444
  5. 598Kevon#1,476#878
Fallers
  1. 1,130Kiara#956#2,086
  2. 916Rachel#993#1,909
  3. 855Nicole#985#1,840
  4. 746Tiffany#956#1,702
  5. 681Sarah#819#1,500

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

See the top 100 for 1990