Arne

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Arne: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Arne: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #5, and it stood at #222 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
96times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#5highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
56names it appears alongside

What stands out in Arne's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 40 years running. Names by top-100 run
Norway registered 1,013 births with the name in 1946, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Shares a published list with another name across 81 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2859
1999	#2425
2000	#2501
2001	#2587
2003	#2857
2005	#3849
2007	#3095
2015	#4747
2016	#4023
2019	#3937
2020	#2960
2021	#2493
2022	#3048
2023	#2160
2024	#3688

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #174 among boys in Norway, #3688 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #6 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #5 among boys in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #222 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Arne appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 18,973 births with the name.

Arne across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Arne's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#6 (1945)	#5 (1946)	#222 (2025)	81 of 81	18,973 (1945–2025)	1,013 (1946)
England and Wales · Boys	#2859 (1997)	#2160 (2023)	#3688 (2024)	15 of 28	73 (1997–2024)	10 (2023)

Arne by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Arne in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	4,419	5 of 10	884
1950s	6,112	10 of 10	611
1960s	4,241	10 of 10	424
1970s	1,889	10 of 10	189
1980s	987	10 of 10	99
1990s	604	10 of 10	60
2000s	356	10 of 10	36
2010s	240	10 of 10	24
2020s	125	6 of 10	21

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 884 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Arne appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #5 in Norway in 1946.

Arne's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2160	10	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#3048	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2493	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#3937	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4023	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3095	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2857	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2501	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2859	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#222	19	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#174	28	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#210	22	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#217	19	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#199	22	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#250	15	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#213	22	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#222	22	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#217	22	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#227	23	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#251	20	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#218	24	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#169	35	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#231	21	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#208	25	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#202	26	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#178	34	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#208	26	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#181	31	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#179	32	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#160	40	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#169	34	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#144	44	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#169	34	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#157	41	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#166	40	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#129	53	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#136	51	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#141	50	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#120	60	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#127	56	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#108	67	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#123	56	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#106	67	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#111	66	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#96	78	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#85	89	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#89	91	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#90	85	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#102	79	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#115	71	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#85	89	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#60	131	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#82	96	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#60	124	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#63	132	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#63	126	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#70	115	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#49	145	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#47	171	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#53	151	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#42	182	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#42	206	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#38	256	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#39	264	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#37	273	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#30	314	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#28	349	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#22	367	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#21	386	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#15	477	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#16	470	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#17	444	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#16	462	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#16	477	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#15	495	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#15	479	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#10	533	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#10	518	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#9	600	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#9	615	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#7	658	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#7	661	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#6	645	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#6	656	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#6	747	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#6	806	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#6	866	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#6	887	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#5	1,013	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#6	847	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #5, first reached in 1946.

It held a top-100 place in 44 years, 40 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 1,013 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 52 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Arnas · #328, 21y
Arnav · #542, 26y
Arnfinn · #58, 52y
Arnhild · #104, 43y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Johannes · #6, 81y
Ole · #6, 81y
Anders · #3, 81y
Ellinor · #7, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Alma · #5, 72y
Anette · #5, 69y
Elizabeth · #5, 81y
Frida · #5, 69y

Comparisons involving Arne

Existing comparison pages where Arne and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Arne in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Arne vs Aksel
Arne and Aksel were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #222 and #25.
Arne · Aksel · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Anders vs Arne
Anders and Arne were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #293 and #222.
Anders · Arne · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Andreas vs Arne
Andreas and Arne were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #96 and #222.
Andreas · Arne · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Arne measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Arne at its highest position.

Bjørn vs Arne
Bjørn and Arne were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #56 and #222.
Bjørn · Arne · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Arne vs Christian
Arne and Christian were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #222 and #131.
Arne · Christian · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking
Daniel vs Arne
Daniel and Arne were both ranked in Norway · Boys for 81 years, from 1945 to 2025, ending at #66 and #222.
Daniel · Arne · 81 shared years, 1945–2025 · Longest-running competitions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Arne was ranked #5 in Norway · Boys in 1946. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Arne and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Arne without appearing here.

Arne moved ahead of

Garry Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3048 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4991.
Graeme Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2857 and #2189 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #4107.
Nils Compare
In 2020 they stood at #3937 and #3411 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2493 and #3990.
Tor Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2960 and #2960 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2493 and #3990.

Moved ahead of Arne

Aksel Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3095 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #1902.
Rune Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4023 and #4810 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #3937 and #2104.
Matheo Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2493 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #3048 and #2018.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #3048 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2160 and #1461.

Moved the opposite way to Arne

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Arne

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.
Dag Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arne went from #6 to #222 and Dag from #48 to #426.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #5 in Norway in 1946. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arne

Arne at a glance

What stands out in Arne's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arne across 2 official records

Arne by decade in Norway · Boys

Arne appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Arne

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Arne

Arne and the names beside it

Arne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arne

Moved the opposite way to Arne

Moved the same way as Arne

Arne at a glance

What stands out in Arne's record

Arne across 2 official records

Arne by decade in Norway · Boys

Arne appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Arne

Longest shared records

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Arne

Arne and the names beside it

Arne moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arne

Moved the opposite way to Arne

Moved the same way as Arne