Arnaud
Arnaud is a boy's name that peaked in 1981, when it was the 6,262nd most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2001. About 14 Arnauds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 34.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Arnaud
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15
- Estimated living today
- 14
- Median age today
- 34
- Peak year
- 1981
- Best rank
- 6,262nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1981
Notable Arnauds
- Arnaud Clément (born 1977)French tennis player
- Arnaud Démare (born 1991)French cyclist
- Arnaud Montebourg (born 1962)French politician, lawyer and entrepreneur
- Arnaud Kalimuendo (born 2002)French footballer
- Arnaud Di Pasquale (born 1979)French tennis player
- Arnaud Amalric (1160–1225)French archbishop
- Arnaud Desplechin (born 1960)French film director and screenwriter
- Arnaud Denjoy (1884–1974)French mathematician
People named Arnaud with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Names of 1981
The most popular boys’ names the year Arnaud peaked:
Arnaud elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Arnaud | 134,765 | 13th |
| Belgium boys | Arnaud | 4,136 | 22nd |
| Switzerland boys | Arnaud | 866 | 107th |
| England and Wales boys | Arnaud | 36 | 3,744th |
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.
Arnaud: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arnaud | 55 | 0.004% | 723rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arnaud | 810 | 0.186% | 22nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Arnaud | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
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.
By canton, Arnaud is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.26% of children were given it – 38 of them.
Arnaud: rank by region
In 2025, Arnaud was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Arnaud | 589 | 9 |
In 2023, Arnaud was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Arnaud | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Arnaud appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (178th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Arnaud among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Arnaud | 9 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Arnaud against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.