Arnett
Recorded 1893–2006 · United States
Arnett was most popular in 1951, when 35 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,725 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,373 people named Arnett.
Arnett over time
How old is the name Arnett?
Arnett first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1893, which makes it about 132 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 87 of the 133 years since. It was last recorded in 2006.
How many people are named Arnett?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,373 American births named Arnett between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 590 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Arnett in 2025?
Arnett was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Arnett a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Arnett is mostly a boy’s name — 5.5% of the 1,373 Americans given it were girls and 94.5% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Arnett?
Roughly 590 Americans named Arnett are alive today — 43% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 67 years old, and half are between 53 and 75.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Arnett is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org