Arnold

maleStatistical record

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

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

Arnold: Recorded since 1945, its highest recorded position is #121, and it stood at #421 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
73times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#121highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#818
1997	#1257
1998	#958
1999	#948
2000	#1096
2001	#1286
2002	#1322
2003	#1410
2004	#1280
2005	#1377
2006	#1643
2007	#1252
2008	#1294
2009	#1568
2010	#1407
2011	#1398
2012	#2458
2013	#1404
2014	#1144
2015	#903
2016	#928
2017	#701
2018	#801
2019	#663
2020	#745
2021	#704
2022	#632
2023	#704
2024	#711

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 35 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #474 among boys in Norway, #711 among boys in England and Wales, #727 among boys in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #121 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: #121 among boys in Norway, in 1945 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #421 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Arnold appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 35 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 519 births with the name.

Arnold across 3 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.

Arnold'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	#121 (1945)	#121 (1945)	#421 (2025)	35 of 81	519 (1945–2025)	42 (1945)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#214 (1964)	#214 (1964)	#764 (2019)	8 of 56	26 (1964–2019)	4 (1964)
England and Wales · Boys	#818 (1996)	#632 (2022)	#711 (2024)	29 of 29	730 (1996–2024)	56 (2022)

Arnold 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 Arnold in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	180	5 of 10	36
1950s	196	10 of 10	20
1960s	77	9 of 10	9
1970s	23	3 of 10	8
1980s	18	3 of 10	6
1990s	10	2 of 10	5
2020s	15	3 of 10	5

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 36 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Arnold 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 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #121 in Norway in 1945.

Arnold'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	#711	50	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#704	49	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#632	56	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#704	49	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#745	43	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#663	52	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#801	40	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#701	50	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#928	32	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#903	33	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1404	17	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1398	17	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1568	14	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1294	18	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1252	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1377	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1286	11	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1096	13	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#948	16	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#958	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1257	10	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#818	18	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#421	6	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#474	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#439	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#504	5	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#563	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#446	8	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#521	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#617	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#475	7	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#480	7	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#408	9	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#423	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#382	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#452	6	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#435	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#314	11	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#356	8	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#373	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#287	11	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#261	13	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#231	15	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#237	14	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#254	12	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#222	16	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#232	13	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#194	19	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#170	26	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#180	21	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#152	30	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#152	30	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#158	29	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#148	33	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#139	36	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#137	40	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#121	42	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	male	#423	4	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#326	3	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#291	3	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	male	#265	3	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	male	#214	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 64 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #121, first reached in 1945.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 56 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 9 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1964, and 79 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.

Arnie · #389, 28y
Arno · #1786, 20y
Arnstein · #116, 52y
Arnt · #75, 67y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Artur · #123, 64y
Emmett · #129, 61y
Wojciech · #131, 64y
Conal · #109, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

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

Hildur · #121, 27y
Idar · #121, 67y
Jim · #121, 77y
Wilhelm · #121, 73y

Arnold was ranked #121 in Norway · Boys in 1945. 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.

Arnold 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 Arnold without appearing here.

Arnold moved ahead of

Roger Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2458 and #1962 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1404 and #3822.
Courtney Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2458 and #2458 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1404 and #2403.
Derek Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1144 and #1144 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #903 and #1586.
Grant Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2458 and #1313 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2013 that had become #1404 and #2055.

Moved ahead of Arnold

Lachlan Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #1040 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1257 and #678.
Oskar Compare
In 1996 they stood at #818 and #976 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #1257 and #759.
Kasper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1377 and #1617 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2006 that had become #1643 and #1168.
Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1286 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1322 and #848.

Moved the opposite way to Arnold

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 while Aksel went from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 while Alfred went from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 while Arthur went from #153 to #83.
Daniel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 while Daniel went from #280 to #66.

Moved the same way as Arnold

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 and Anders from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 and Arild from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 and Arne from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Arnold went from #121 to #421 and Bjørn from #3 to #56.

What's not yet available

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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 4 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #121 in Norway in 1945. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Arnold

Arnold at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Arnold across 3 official records

Arnold by decade in Norway · Boys

Arnold appears in

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Arnold and the names beside it

Arnold moved ahead of

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Arnold at a glance

Arnold across 3 official records

Arnold by decade in Norway · Boys

Arnold appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Arnold

Arnold and the names beside it

Arnold moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Arnold

Moved the opposite way to Arnold

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