Arno
Arno is a boy's name that peaked in 1915, when it was the 823rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 720 Arnos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Arno
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,723
- Estimated living today
- 720
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 823rd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1888
How old the living Arnos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,723 babies given the name since 1888, about 720 are alive — 42 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 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 Arnos
- Arno Allan Penzias (1933–2024)German-born American physicist
- Arno Breker (1900–1991)German sculptor and architect
- Arno Schmidt (1914–1979)German poet
- Arno Babajanian (1921–1983)Armenian composer and pianist
- Arno Holz (1863–1929)German naturalist poet and dramatist
- Arno (1949–2022)Belgian singer
- Arno van Zwam (born 1969)Dutch association football player
- Arno Kamminga (born 1995)Dutch swimmer
People named Arno with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arno is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arno is most concentrated in Wisconsin (18.8×), California (3.3×), Texas (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Arno peaked:
Arno elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Arno | 3,379 | 44th |
| France boys | Arno | 2,190 | 410th |
| Switzerland boys | Arno | 717 | 167th |
| England and Wales boys | Arno | 141 | 1,786th |
| Poland boys | Arno | 6 birth registrations | 732nd |
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.
Arno: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arno | 405 | 0.033% | 133rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arno | 298 | 0.068% | 74th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Arno | 12 | 0.018% | 117th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Arno | 2 | 0.054% | 20th |
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, Arno is most concentrated in Graubünden, where 0.09% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Arno: rank by region
In 2025, Arno was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Arno | 429 | 13 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Arno appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (251st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Arno by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 13 | 455th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Arno 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Arno | 4,176 | 5,262 |
| Finland boys | Arno | 478 | 628 |
| the Netherlands girls | Arno | — | 75 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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
Arno 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.