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Arnaldo vs Arnoldo

American parents have registered 4,713 Arnoldos since 1880, against 2,083 Arnaldos. Arnoldo is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Arnaldo against Arnoldo, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Arnaldo Arnoldo

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 106 years in which either name was published, Arnoldo for 103 years and Arnaldo for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Arnaldo Arnoldo
Total US births 2,0834,713
Most in one year 9094
Babies in 2025 526
Estimated living today 1,9003,900
Median age today 3738
Peak year 19891992
Best rank 1,115th boys1,135th boys
Rank in 2025 12,008th4,050th
First recorded 19151914
Girls / boys 0 / 2,0830 / 4,713

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Arnaldo and Arnoldo.