Arvid
Arvid is a boy's name that peaked in 1916, when it was the 574th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 800 Arvids are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 71.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Arvid
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,167
- Estimated living today
- 800
- Median age today
- 71
- Peak year
- 1916
- Best rank
- 574th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,243rd
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Arvids are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,167 babies given the name since 1880, about 800 are alive — 25 in every hundred. Roughly 120 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1954 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.
Where the name comes from
Borrowed from Danish Arvid, Swedish Arvid or Norwegian Arvid.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Arvids
- Arvid Carlsson (1923–2018)Swedish neuroscientist
- Arvid Lindman (1862–1936)Swedish 20th century prime minister
- Arvid Lindblad (born 2007)British racing driver
- Arvid Posse (1820–1901)Swedish 19th century prime minister
- Arvid August Afzelius (1785–1871)Swedish clergyman, poet, historian, mythologist and botanist
- Arvid Horn (1664–1742)Swedish politician
- Arvid Genetz (1848–1915)Finnish writer, politician and linguist
- Arvid Holmberg (1886–1958)gymnast
People named Arvid with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Arvid is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Arvid is most concentrated in Minnesota (28.8×), North Dakota (22.5×), Wisconsin (8.5×), Michigan (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1916
The most popular boys’ names the year Arvid peaked:
Arvid elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden boys | Arvid | 11,266 | 21st |
| Norway boys | Arvid | 4,387 | 34th |
| Belgium boys | Arvid | 119 | 621st |
| Switzerland boys | Arvid | 96 | 663rd |
| England and Wales boys | Arvid | 30 | 2,730th |
| France boys | Arvid | 5 | 5,062nd |
| Poland boys | Arvid | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
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.
Arvid: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Arvid | 90 | 0.007% | 479th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Arvid | 5 | 0.001% | 727th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Arvid | 1 | 0.027% | 9th |
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, Arvid is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 28 of them.
Arvid: rank by region
In 2022, Arvid was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Arvid | 866 | 5 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Arvid appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (167th).
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.
Arvid by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 47 | 278th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Arvid 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 | Arvid | 476 | 3,219 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 3,219 who carry it, 476 go by it.
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
Arvid 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.