Arba
About 63 American babies have been named Arba since 1898, most of them around 1898. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 1938. About 6 Arbas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 88.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Arba boys named Arba
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 63
- Estimated living today
- 6
- Median age today
- 88
- Peak year
- 1898
- Best rank
- 804th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 16 / 47
How old the living Arbas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 63 babies given the name since 1898, about 6 are alive — 9 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1937 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Arbas
- Arba Kokalari (born 1986)Swedish politician
People named Arba with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1898
The most popular boys’ names the year Arba peaked:
Arba elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Arba | 19 | 1,238th |
| England and Wales girls | Arba | 3 | 5,691st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Arba: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Arba | 17 | 0.001% | 954th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Arba | 2 | 0.000% | 762nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Arba against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.