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Arnetta

Recorded 1894–1999 · United States

Arnetta was most popular in 1953, when 82 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,798 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,248 people named Arnetta.

Most popular in1953
Rank that year#1,798
Births that year82
Total since 18803,248
Given to100% girls
Alive today~1,000
Median age65

Arnetta over time

18802025
Births per year. The dot marks Arnetta’s peak in 1953. Gaps are years the SSA suppressed, which it does for any name given to fewer than five babies.

How old is the name Arnetta?

Arnetta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1894, which makes it about 131 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 98 of the 132 years since. It was last recorded in 1999.

How many people are named Arnetta?

The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,248 American births named Arnetta 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 1,956 are estimated to be alive today.

How many babies were named Arnetta in 2025?

Arnetta 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 Arnetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Across the whole record Arnetta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 3,248 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% 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 Arnetta?

Roughly 1,956 Americans named Arnetta are alive today — 60% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 65 years old, and half are between 56 and 74.

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 Arnetta 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